But The Hobbit was plagued with more difficulty from the start, originally tapping Guillermo del Toro to direct. Rewinding in The Lord of the Rings timeline from the original trilogy to a time ...

Yet when Jackson returned almost a decade later for The Hobbit trilogy, he and the artists at ... they could die of shame if ...

First brought to life by J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit (1937) and expanded through the epic scope of The Lord of the Rings trilogy (1954–55), these stories laid the foundation for modern fantasy ...