• November 22, 2015
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Admittedly, I haven’t been too impressed with the Hobbit trilogy. Though The Lord of the Rings was a freakishly long series of films, at least it was dense with...

• April 8, 2014
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

The Hobbit Part 2 picks up with a cantina scene right out of Star Wars. Thorin (Richard Armitage), the Dwarf King, sits down for some grog, fully aware that...

• March 14, 2013
• Moviepie Musings

Burning questions about Hobbits and other creatures of Middle Earth are finally answered! Apparently Bilbo Baggins stands 4’2″ while Thorin the Dwarf King is 4′ 10.5″ (and a little...

• December 11, 2012
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Unlike Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings Trilogy, a trio of movies based on a trio of dense books, the Hobbit trilogy is based on… a single book....

• October 31, 2012
• Moviepie Musings

Check out this new Air New Zealand in-flight safety video inspired by The Hobbit. The airline partnered with WETA Workshop to create this funny, yet still educational instructional video...

• December 20, 2003
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

My favorite thing about Lord of the Rings: Return of the King is that I finally figured out that R. Wynn and A.O. Wynn are not related. During the...

• January 3, 2003
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Just when you think director Peter Jackson is in over his head with the extravagant special effects, numerous characters, and the large scope of J.R.R. Tolkein’s book, he proves...

• January 3, 2002
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

I’ve been reminded of Titanic several times over the last few years while picking up stories here and there about the production of The Lord of the Rings trilogy....