LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A small-town hobbit faces larger-than-life challenges in "The Desolation of Smaug," as director Peter Jackson intensifies the action in the second installment of fantasy film ...

While some information has started to trickle out, information about Evangeline Lilly’s Tauriel, leader of the Woodland Guard in the forthcoming The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, is still somewhat ...

Evangeline Lilly is playing an all-new character in the second movie in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, an elf named Tauriel. All we knew about her character is that she has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The second installment of Peter Jackson's adaptation of the 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien novel The Hobbit promises to be even more ...

Star Martin Freeman said he doesn’t think of his role as playing an iconic character, because “you’d go mad if you did.” By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Warner Bros. didn’t screen The Hobbit footage ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Wearing elf ears and wizard hats, sitting atop their dad's shoulders or peering from balconies, tens of thousands of New Zealanders watched their favorite "Hobbit" ...

Long before the movies -- before, even, Bakshi's attempts, before Dungeons & amp; Dragons appropriated the character classes -- Tolkien's world was complete and fully peopled. The books captured my ...