| The riddling talk between Smaug and the hobbit has its parallel in the dialogue between Fafnir and Sigurd, although that takes place after the death blow has been struck. |
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| I came away from the end of The hobbit more excited about making movies than I ever had. |
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| But the thing with The hobbit I will tell you... I went into it very unprepared. |
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| Others boast colorful tiles, captain windows to take in the vista, and fitted doors that give the appearance of a hobbit dwelling. |
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| Yet in the film, the dwarves, hobbit and wizard all congregate to a single tree that remains untouched by the fire. |
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| And Martin Freeman turns up as the hobbit, and Andrew Lincoln is in The Walking Dead, and Chiwetel is in 12 Years A Slave. |
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| The Elvenking is impressed with this and he blesses the hobbit. |
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| This was the case with the young hobbit named Frodo Baggins, at least until Gandalf the magician came into his life. |
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| After a few years, he once again splashed back onto the scene as Frodo, the hobbit we've all come to know and love, in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. |
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| He is slain in turn by hobbit archers, and the War of the Ring comes to its true end on Frodo's very doorstep. |
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| How could a simple hobbit defeat this evil plan? |
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| Adjudicators reviewing the case had to decide whether punters would connect the band's name with the hobbit character played by Martin Freeman in the recent film. |
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| Spectacular species after years lost in the hobbit to take it back. |
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| Therefore, although his character was supposed to be short, he was properly in proportion compared to the hobbit actors. |
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| As a novel The hobbit is 276 pages in its 75th anniversary edition. |
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| The story begins in the Shire, where the hobbit Frodo Baggins inherits the Ring from Bilbo Baggins, his cousin and guardian. |
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| Neither hobbit is aware of the Ring's nature, but Gandalf the Grey, a wizard and an old friend of Bilbo, suspects it to be Sauron's Ring. |
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| Now, Stephen Montgomery and Nicholas Mundy at the University of Cambridge have looked at pygmy marmosets to shed light on the mystery of the hobbit. |
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| True, Dwarves provided comic relief in The Hobbit but that was originally written as a children's book and not as a 'serious' work. |
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| When Tolkien published The Hobbit, the ring was nothing but a magical ring of invisibility that Bilbo found on his journey. |
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| Hollywood can't get enough of Wellywood, with stars of The Hobbit gushing praise for director Sir Peter Jackson at the film's world premiere in his hometown of Wellington. |
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| I haven't read any of them yet, but I remember reading for the first time, about twenty years ago, the Hobbit books, during a Christmas vacation trip to the left coast. |
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| Serkis has served as the second unit director for The Hobbit films and will direct the upcoming Breathe and Jungle Book. |
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| Roverandom and Smith of Wootton Major, like The Hobbit, borrowed ideas from his legendarium. |
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| Both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set against the background of The Silmarillion, but in a time long after it. |
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| He submitted it to his publishers as a balm to readers who were hungry for more from him after the success of The Hobbit. |
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| The Oxford plaque commemorates the residence where Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and most of The Lord of the Rings. |
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| From 2012 to 2014, through voice and motion capture, he played the characters of Smaug and the Necromancer in The Hobbit film series. |
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| Peter Jackson also directed three films based on Tolkien's earlier 1937 novel The Hobbit. |
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| The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. |
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| They are also threatening to block the production of the long-awaited prequel, The Hobbit, which may now be cancelled. |
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| Martin Freeman was named best actor at the Empire Awards on Sunday night for his role as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. |
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| Lord Of The Rings' Billy Boyd came on stage to read excerpts from The Hobbit over The Bookclub. |
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| Talion is revived from the dead between the events of the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. |
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| Beowulf is one of the most significant influences upon Tolkien's later fiction, with major details of both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings being adapted from the poem. |
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| Just as The Hobbit didn't require three films and the Twilight series was pushing it with five, this second movie in the Divergent series feels as if it's treading water. |
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| Just as e Hobbit didn't require three lms and The Twilight series was pushing it with ve, this second movie in the Divergent series feels as if it's treading water. |
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| These two intermediacies are crucial in showing both how The Hobbit both built on the children's books before it and how it achieved something utterly different. |
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| On 8 September 2009, a settlement of this dispute between the Trust and New Line was announced, clearing a potential obstacle to the making of a new film based on The Hobbit. |
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| After the huge success of the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, which is the story of Middle earth 60 years before, will bring alive New Zealand's landscapes once more. |
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| R Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings books and The Hobbit. |
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| Post Office Travel Money said demand for the New Zealand dollar had been boosted by the release of The Hobbit film, which was shot in the country. |
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| He commented in 1965, while editing The Hobbit for a third edition, that he would have preferred to completely rewrite the book because of the style of its prose. |
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| Tolkien at first intended The Lord of the Rings to be a children's tale in the style of The Hobbit, but it quickly grew darker and more serious in the writing. |
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