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Although The Hobbit was originally made as a two-part film, on 30 July 2012, Jackson confirmed plans for a third film, turning his adaptation of The Hobbit into a trilogy. [ 99 ] [ 100 ] According to Jackson, the third film would make extensive use of the appendices that Tolkien wrote to support the story of The Lord of the Rings (published in ...
The Complete Guide to Middle-earth: from The Hobbit to The Silmarillion is a reference book for J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, compiled and edited by Robert Foster. It was first published in 1971 under the title A Guide to Middle-earth .
The Hobbit calls him an elf-friend rather than an elf, one "who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors." [T 9] The Elvenking, king of the Mirkwood Elves. He held the dwarves captive. They were eventually freed by Bilbo. [T 10] (In The Hobbit he is only called "the Elvenking"; his name "Thranduil" is given in The Lord of the Rings ...
The Hobbit has been adapted many times for a variety of media, starting with a March 1953 stage production by St. Margaret's School, Edinburgh. [108] The first motion picture adaptation of The Hobbit was Gene Deitch's 1966 short film of cartoon stills. [138] In 1968, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an 8-part radio drama version by Michael Kilgarriff. [139]
He considered helming a Hobbit film and a Lord of the Rings prequel film in 2006, [127] before deciding to produce two films based on The Hobbit for a director of his choosing. New Line suggested Sam Raimi to direct, but in 2008, Guillermo Del Toro was chosen to direct a two-film adaptation, produced by Jackson and co-written with Walsh ...
The 1967 short animated film The Hobbit was the first film production of The Hobbit.It was directed by Gene Deitch in Czechoslovakia.American film producer William L. Snyder obtained the rights to the novel from the Tolkien estate very cheaply while it was still largely unknown, with the proviso that he produce a "full-colour film" by 30 June 1966, and immediately set about producing a feature ...
Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell gave Colts QB Anthony Richardson a vote of confidence after his benching in Week 9. Here's what he said to the young QB.
The Hobbit is an illustrated interactive fiction video game released in December 1982 [1] for the ZX Spectrum home computer. Based on the 1937 book The Hobbit , by J. R. R. Tolkien , it was developed at Beam Software by Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and published by Melbourne House .