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 ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

With Azog set up to take Bolg's role from the book and the obvious trilogy-wide conflict between he and Thorin in place, it's pretty clear that he's not going to make it out of the Battle of the Five ...

Azog never appears in the Hobbit novel, but he is certainly a character that was created by Tolkien. In the original back-story for Thorin Oakenshield, it was his father who had fought with the Pale ...

PLOT SUMMARY Continuing from where the previous film left off, Smaug flies off to Lake Town, where he wants to take revenge on the people there for helping his enemies. He breathes fire on the town ...

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J.R.R. Tolkien crafted a massive world, with dozens of minor characters who fans of the films might not know about (yet). Among them are Dwarves who changed the course of Middle-Earth history, whose ...