Hobbit

The Hobbit, an animated movie released in 1977, follows the adventure of Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a group of dwarves to help reclaim their homeland from the dragon Smaug.

Welcome Home, Hobbit – Play as a Hobbit, directly out of J.R.R Tolkien's beloved books!

Comic horror rock band Rosemary's Billygoat recorded a song and video called "Hobbit Feet", about a man who takes a girl home from a bar only to discover she has horrifying "hobbit feet".

However, Tolkien claims that he started The Hobbit suddenly, without premeditation, in the midst of grading a set of student essay exams, writing on a blank piece of paper: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit".

Instead of approaching The Hobbit as a children's book in its own right, critics such as Randell Helms picked up on the idea of The Hobbit as being a "prelude", relegating the story to a dry-run for the later work.

The hobbit Gollum refers to the One Ring as his "birthday present" in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Tolkien does not specifically mention foot size as a generic hobbit trait, but does make it the distinctive trait of the Proudfoot hobbit family.

A custom-built fire pit is available for guest use at the new “Hobbit House” vacation rental in Fayette County.

A game in which a player inherits or buys a house and then tends to it, Hobbit-style, would make a great sim.

And in 2011, he travelled to New Zealand to perform the role of the Goblin King in the first instalment of Sir Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit.

Cumberbatch's Smaug is the best thing about the "Hobbit" trilogy, and his Martin Freeman as Bilbo is the second.

Having played Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson’s smash-hit Hobbit trilogy with a powerful northern accent, it’s slightly surprising to hear Richard Armitage’s deep, rich baritone minus the strong inflections of the dwarf lord.

He also has to put up with kibitzing from his alter ego, Smeagol, the kindhearted hobbit Gollum was before being corrupted by his “preciousss” One Ring.

If you manage to encourage them into a romantic relationship then a sex scene can result which involves Halsin turning into a bear – like Beorn from The Hobbit.

The events of "The Hobbit" will give you a handy primer to the worlds of Elves, dwarves, and humans before the dizzyingly complex Jackson films swirl past you.

The short-statured Homo floresiensis, sometimes known as the ''Hobbit,'' was living in Indonesia, while the long-legged Homo erectus was loping around Asia.

This is confirmed in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies when Bilbo returns home to find his belongings being auctioned off and is told he was declared dead after being missing for over 13 months.

When Frodo saw him again in Rivendell, the Hobbit had grown old (thanks to the absence of the Ring), and he seemed to have little understanding of what was happening.

While Tolkien is best known for “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” (originally published in three volumes), he had written a significant amount of narrative, commentary and history about Middle-earth and characters in the books.

Jackson, in particular, turned a rather short battle that readers don't even get to experience in the original "Hobbit" book into an almost two and a half hour epic.