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“Gandalf” wasn’t always the name of the wandering wizard in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Born of Hope and The Hunt For Gollum are both based on Tolkien’s notes and his posthumously published Middle-Earth chronology, The Silmarillion.ĥ. If you’ve ever wondered what happened in Middle-Earth prior to The Hobbit or during the period between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, a pair of critically praised fan films have explored those two periods in Tolkien’s mythology. Four years after he died, in 1977 The Hobbit was adapted into an animated musical and released by Warner Bros (see number 7).Ĥ. Tolkien had an intense hatred for the studio’s eternally upbeat, bright, and frequently altered adaptations of well-known stories, and he rejected several previous offers to make movies based on his Middle-Earth stories due to the pitches seeming too “Disney-fied” in their approach.

Tolkien sold the film rights to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, he demanded a guarantee that The Walt Disney Company would never be involved with adaptations of his work. The end result is that some people loved it, some people hated it.ģ. This filming speed is twice the current industry standard (24 frames-per-second), and was used to create smoother, more fluid action and improve the visual effect of viewing the movie in 3-D.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey earned a notable place in cinematic history for being the first feature-length movie to be shot and screened at 48 frames-per-second. The boy gave the book rave reviews, and the rest is Hobbit history.Ģ. Originally conceived as a children’s fantasy story, the book went to print only after publisher Sir Stanley Unwin paid his 10-year-old son to read it. Tolkien initially conceived of the story that would provide the foundation for his Lord of the Rings saga when a single sentence popped into his head: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” The sentence stuck in his head until he finally began writing the novel that would become The Hobbit, which was eventually published in 1937. Here are 10 things you might now know about The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey :ġ. To celebrate the arrival of the movie on DVD, Blu-Ray, streaming, as a downloadable file, possibly on VHS, and any other form of home media you can possibly imagine, we have assembled a few facts about the film that you might not know.