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22 unusual facts about The Hobbit


A Walking Song

The phrase "home is behind, the world ahead" is first uttered by Gandalf near the beginning of the film of The Hobbit, as Bilbo and the dwarves leave the Shire for the first time.

AUJ

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a 2012 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson

Cirth

Many letters have shapes also found in the historical futhorc runes (used in The Hobbit), but their sound values are dissimilar.

In The Hobbit, the Anglo-Saxon futhorc was used in the publication with few changes; in The Lord of the Rings a new system of runes, the Cirth, was devised.

Concerning Hobbits

The piece can also be heard briefly during a scene in the 2012 film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Dwight Christmas

He also notes that he wants to see the first part of Peter Jackson's 2012 film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Ettercap

The name ettercap is derived from the Danish word for spider, edderkop, and is related to attercop, an archaic word for poisonous spider, used in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

Fantasy literature

J. R. R. Tolkien played a large role in the popularization and accessibility of the fantasy genre with his highly successful publications The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

The Omni shows documentaries daily, as well as showing feature length films including Star Trek, The Hobbit, Skyfall, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Night at the Museum, and Polar Express, among others.

Highly Illogical

The collection includes "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins", which tells the story of J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit, and has been immortalized by being included on various novelty compilations over the years.

Milan Milišić

He wrote several volumes of poetry and translated, among others, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, the poems of Robert Frost, and Ted Hughes into the Serbo-Croatian language.

Misty Mountain Hop

The most common interpretation of the song's title seems to be a reference to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

Silvan Elves

In the 1977 animated adaption of The Hobbit, The Wood Elves are depicted as having fair hair and pale lavender skin, with clothing predominantly brown and olive coloured garb.

Tauriel

In 1937 J. R. R. Tolkien published the fantasy novel The Hobbit, whose plot centres on a group consisting of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and thirteen dwarves, who go in search of a treasure guarded by the dragon, Smaug.

The character does not appear in the original book, but was created by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh as an expansion of material adapted from the book, and first appears in the second film in that trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, released December 13, 2013.

The Road to Middle-earth

The book discusses the sources of Tolkien's inspiration in creating the world of Middle-earth and the writing of works including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

TheOneRing.net

For example, it was TheOneRing.net that Peter Jackson emailed in an effort to get his side heard when a lawsuit threatened his chance to film The Hobbit.

The site is unique in that there is a mutual working relationship between the crew of TheOneRing.net and that of The Lord of the Rings movies, and now The Hobbit movies.

Translation of The Lord of the Rings into Swedish

In 2007, Andersson together with John Swedenmark translated The Hobbit, making it the third Swedish translation of this book, but the first time that The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were available in Swedish from the same translator.

Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a 2012 film — part one of the film adaptation of The Hobbit

Westron

From these early trade outposts and forts Westron spread throughout Eriador and neighbouring lands (where the action of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place), with the notable exception of Mordor.

White Council

This White Council meeting, of late summer T.A. 2941, was also the reason that Gandalf was unable to accompany Bilbo Baggins and the dwarves on a portion of their trip to the Lonely Mountain in The Hobbit.


Adam Fratto

'Adam Fratto is a veteran television and film professional who is developing and producing scripted television for Pukeko Pictures, the production company affiliated with New Zealand's famed Weta Workshop (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, District 9).

AudioGO

AudioGo's catalogue from the BBC included popular radio dramatisations such as Doctor Who, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as radio comedy including I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and Just a Minute.

Christopher Winchester

In addition to work in short films and TV, Winchester acted as an extra in Lake-town in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Craig H. Russell

Middle Earth, a suite after J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was composed by Craig Russell for the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony.

Cryptozoic Entertainment

The company has also produced content based on the Penny Arcade franchise, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey/The Lord of the Rings, DC Comics, and others.

David Wenzel

The Hobbit: An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy Classic (with writers Chuck Dixon and Sean Deming; Eclipse Comics, 1989; Ballantine Books, 1990; Del Ray Books, 2001) ISBN 0-345-44560-0

Edward Wyke Smith

J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings is known to have read, The Marvellous Land of Snergs to his children.

High frame rate

Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film series, beginning with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in December 2012, used a shooting and projection frame rate of 48 frames per second, becoming the first feature film with a wide release to do so.

Hobbit Day

Hobbit Day is the birthday of the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, two fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's popular set of books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Homo floresiensis

Homo floresiensis was unveiled on 28 October 2004, and was swiftly nicknamed the "Hobbit", after the fictional race popularized in J. R. R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit, and a proposed scientific name for the species was Homo hobbitus.

Middle-earth Enterprises

Video game rights to Tolkien's literary works were first licensed to Vivendi, which produced The Fellowship of the Ring in 2002 and The Hobbit in 2003.

Talented 10th

From Talented Tenth and Preaching With Sacred Fire, Sho Baraka delved into books such as The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, along with various works by authors such as Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, August Wilson, and C. S. Lewis.

The Annotated Hobbit

The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is an edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit with a commentary by Douglas A. Anderson.

Themes in A Song of Ice and Fire

Although there may be women who read books like the Ice and Fire series, Bellafante said to never have "met a single woman who has stood up in indignation at her book club and refused to read the latest from Lorrie Moore unless everyone agreed to The Hobbit first".

Thorin Oakenshield

In the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit, he is voiced by Hans Conried.

Thranduil

In the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit, Thranduil is voiced by Otto Preminger.