The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on an epic ...

The biggest, baddest orc of all is coming to Te Papa! Azog™ the Defiler will be on display at the national museum from tomorrow and visitors are invited to come snap a selfie with the huge and pale ...

Poor Thorin Oakenshield — the would-be King under the mountain just can’t get a break. In The Hobbit, Azog the Defiler kills his Granddad, then he steals the dwarf’s favorite shield… and he’s not done ...

Azog is not mentioned much in The Hobbit, but appears in other Tolkien works as well. His role in the films was greatly expanded from the source material, but it does serve to give the movies their ...

As mentioned, Middle Earth is teeming with villainous folk, most of which want Bilbo, Thorin and co. dead. And where Thorin is concerned, that goes doubly so for Azog, the muscled, maimed, one-armed ...

Much of the film's story is actually from the appendices to "The Lord of the Rings" The first movie installment of "The Hobbit" is almost three hours long When people complain about the nearly ...

Editor's Note, December 10, 2013: With the second chapter of The Hobbit trilogy opening in theaters soon, and the third and final film to be released next winter, refresh your memory about what ...