Join Kai Soul as he brings Middle-earth to life with two breathtaking dioramas inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. This comprehensive art tutorial guides you through every stage: from initial ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Warner Bros. has released a nifty new banner ...

While An Unexpected Journey had plenty of bucolic charm, it did, for a Middle-earth film, feel oddly inconsequential. The Desolation Of Smaug remedies that. Moody, urgent and, for want of a better ...

A heavyset man of gross demeanor lurches out of an inn, gnawing a meat bone, and a chuckle of surprise runs through the audience. Peter Jackson, the directorial lord of The Lord of the Rings, the man ...

Yesterday, Tolkien fans got a look at the first poster for The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug when it was posted on the film's Facebook page. The one sheet was posted in anticipation of the film's ...

At the climax of the last of the many sprawling, outrageous action set pieces in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — a few with some textual basis in Tolkien, many without — comes a visual conceit ...

Mention Smaug, the classic storybook dragon of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," and a ray of delight flickers across Benedict Cumberbatch's pale eyes. Smaug, "a most specially greedy, strong and wicked ...

Five super-sized movies in, it’s time to stop treating films based on J.R.R. Tolkien novels with more reverence than other popcorn films. It’s freeing to acknowledge that I zoned out during all the ...