Long before Frodo, there was Bilbo—an ordinary hobbit swept into a world of trolls, treasure, and one very dangerous dragon. This is the journey that started it all.

3. The dragon's mouth was a different kind of challenge. When Andy Serkis did motion-capture to play Gollum in the first Hobbit movie, it was for a character with a humanoid face. With Smaug and ...

“The Hobbit” dragon Smaug peeked his gigantic head into “The Colbert Report” studio Thursday to talk fiscal conservatism and blast Hollywood’s “liberal conservative bias.” Oh, he was ...

Peter Jackson’s imagining of the dragon will fly into Los Angeles on Monday. By Pip Bulbeck Hobbit fans in New Zealand got the first full look at the dragon Smaug. It’s life-size image was ...

By Tuesday afternoon, the dragon had pretty much taken over the commons area at Bishop Seabury Academy.While 25 actors and actresses were putting the finishing touches on ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — New Zealand's national airline on Monday unveiled a giant image of the dragon Smaug on one of its planes to celebrate the premiere of the second movie in the Hobbit ...

A dmit it: you were pronouncing the word “Smaug” — the name of the Hobbit dragon, the one who’s in the subtitle of the upcoming movie installation — as “smog.” Observant watchers of ...

It's dragon-slayin' time! Unfortunately, it's a pretty huge dragon, and Bilbo (Martin Freeman) … well, Bilbo is not. There also seems to be some controversy over whose fight it is. "Where does ...

At the halfway point between the last Peter Jackson Hobbit movie and the next, Warner Bros. has released a new trailer and teaser images for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, complete with ...

New Zealand's national airline unveiled a giant image Monday of the dragon Smaug on one of its planes to celebrate the premiere of the second movie in the "Hobbit" trilogy. Air New Zealand showed ...

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A small hobbit racked up big sales at movie box offices during the weekend, generating an estimated $205 million at theaters around the world with the debut of ...