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 ...

Hobbit fans in New Zealand got the first full look at the dragon Smaug. It’s life-size image was unveiled Monday on the side of an Air New Zealand Boeing 737 before flying from Auckland, N.Z ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new trailer for director Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" finally gives us a good look at the dragon who lends his name to the subtitle. But is there more smoke than fire ...

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 “The Hobbit” down ...

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 ...

In the first movie, the director revealed only the dragon's eye. The Hobbit trilogy, based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien, was filmed in New Zealand. AIR NEW ZEALAND / EPA.