Although we just ran a big update from Guillermo del Toro on all things The Hobbit last week, we have yet another interesting, and pretty damn cool, update to feature today. Over on The One Ring ...

It is no secret at the start of the first Hobbit movie An Unexpected Journey, that Thorin is dubious by Gandalf’s choice of burglar. In fact, much of the first film centers around Bilbo trying to ...

48 FPS or otherwise, The Hobbit features a wealth of stunning, unreal creatures like any good fantasy movie should. The magic behind it all—of course—is CGI, but motion capture and a variety of ...

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In the first film in the Hobbit trilogy, we meet a hobbit known as Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm). He begins to tell a story that happened to him many years ago. We turn back in time to a younger Bilbo ...

Fossilized skeletons resembling a mythical 'hobbit' creature represent an entirely new species in humanity's evolutionary chain, according to researchers. Cutting-edge 3D modeling technology was used ...

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Take a single fossil skull the size of a chimpanzee that might have held a highly advanced human brain, a trove of ancient humanlike bones and teeth, and an odd assortment of stone tools from an ...

Do the remains of a tiny hobbit-like creature found on the island of Flores belong to a new human species? Airing November 11, 2008 at 9 pm on PBS Aired November 11, 2008 on PBS NARRATOR: It is the ...

A prehistoric creature, named after The Hobbit character Beorn, is one of three new discoveries that suggest the rapid evolution of mammals after dinosaur extinction. These prehistoric mammals roamed ...

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