Season 11 Episode 10: The Hobbit

About this episode

The episode discusses the cinematic adaptation of 'The Hobbit' and its connection to the 'Lord of the Rings' series.

Long movies with short characters. We must be back in Middle Earth again! After 8 years, Peter Jackson brought more Tolkien tales to the big screen and another epic trilogy arrived. These Hobbit adventures were almost as awesome at the previous Lord of the Rings movies, and some of our old familiar characters show up here, but it's all top-notch action and CGI beasts done properly. Sweeping music, slashing swordplay and a bad-ass, fire-breathing, trash-talkin' dragon m...

People in this episode

Host: Mike D'Arrigo

Topics covered

• Middle Earth
• Tolkien
• epic trilogy
• action
• CGI
• adventure

Keywords

• Hobbit
• Peter Jackson
• Tolkien
• Middle Earth
• CGI
• action
• trilogy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings

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