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The Hobbit enters the mountain and steals a golden cup. [2] [T 4] [T 5] Smaug, enraged by the theft, emerges from the mountain and flies south to destroy Lake-town, which he suspects is the source of the "thieves". During this attack Smaug is killed by Bard the Bowman; Thorin claims the mountain on learning of Smaug's demise.
Although The Hobbit was originally made as a two-part film, on 30 July 2012, Jackson confirmed plans for a third film, turning his adaptation of The Hobbit into a trilogy.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 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 .
The Hobbit received mixed reviews across all platforms, according to the review aggregators Metacritic and GameRankings, with aggregate scores ranging from 59% to 67%. [ a ] IGN called the Game Boy Advance version a good action game with impressive graphics, but thought it lacked a sense of grandeur, with all the quests and battles coming ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Macworld praises The Hobbit's graphics, but states that in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Shadows of Mordor the art adds little to the games' overall appeal. Furthermore, Macworld heralds the three games as "literate and faithful in spirit to original books", but criticizes the dated and "rigid" nature of the text-adventure format.