An Unexpected Journey tells the tale of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), who is convinced by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to accompany thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug.

Warner Bros Discovery will revisit Middle-earth after penning a deal with New Line Cinema to produce "multiple" film adaptations of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit," Warner Bros. Discovery's CEO David Zaslav said Thursday in an earnings call.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first part of a split trilogy of its prequel. Though, J.R.R. Tolkien's book is not really that long for a split and the film is even a lot longer as the story's introduction. The result of the movie is it's rather too long and a bit slow but the experience is still worth it.

14 December 2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first part of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy and it is based on J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, although some elements are taken from the story and The Appendices of The Lord of the Rings. It was released on 14 December 2012 in North America.

hob·​bit ˈhä-bət. : a member of a fictitious peaceful and genial race of small humanlike creatures that dwell underground.

The Hobbit's plot and characters combined the ancient heroic Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian epics Tolkien studied with the middle-class rural England in which he lived. In many ways, the novel's charm and humor lie in transplanting a simple, pastoral Englishman of the 1930s into a heroic medieval setting.

The film production process can be divided into countless steps to take a film from concept to a finished piece. However, there are three key stages that take place in the production of any film: pre-production (planning), production (filming), and post-production (editing, color-grading, and visual effects).

Movie Info Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) lives a simple life with his fellow hobbits in the shire, until the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) arrives and convinces him to join a group of dwarves on a quest to reclaim the kingdom of Erebor.

hob·​bit ˈhä-bət. : a member of a fictitious peaceful and genial race of small humanlike creatures that dwell underground.

New Zealand The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was mostly shot in New Zealand. The Hobbiton Movie Set was located on a family-run farm 6.2 miles southwest of Matamata, Waikato, New Zealand. Filming also took place at Pinewood Studios in England.

There are in fact three ancestral breeds of hobbits: harfoots, stoors, and falllohides. And while they all have differentiating features – fallohides never grew beards, for example – we only need to concern ourselves with harfoots for the time being.

Hobbits, also known as Halflings, were a mortal race of Middle-earth.