Of the twelve Dwarves who accompanied Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit, nine were his relatives, making them part of the ...

Could the Komodo dragon, the most fiercesome lizard on Earth, actually be an island dwarf? Biogeographers: Break out that machete. Why was the hobbit (left skull) so small? Was its ancestor who ...

Bilbo Baggins is swept into a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself ...

If they reach the human settlement of Lake-town it will be time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill his contract with the dwarves. The party must complete the journey to Lonely Mountain and ...

In Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," Richard Armitage plays dwarf leader Thorin Oakenshield. Armitage talks to WSJ's Barbara Chai about his transformation for the role ...