* The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ( 2012 )

He will reprise his role as the elder Bilbo Baggins in the to be released movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

* The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ( 2012 )

* The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ( 2012 )-Filming

His new book, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey The Official Movie Guide, will be published in November 2012.

* The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ( 2012 )

* The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ( 2012 )

* The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ( 2012, screenplay, producer )

Similarities to the works of other writers who faced the Great War are seen in The Hobbit, including portraying warfare as anti-pastoral: in " The Desolation of Smaug ", both the area under the influence of Smaug before his demise and the setting for The Battle of the Five Armies later are described as barren, damaged landscapes.

* The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug ( 2013 )

* The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug ( 2013 )

* The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug ( 2013, screenplay, producer )

Specific plot elements and features in The Hobbit that show similarities to Beowulf include the title thief as Bilbo is called by Gollum and later also by Smaug, the underground path into the mountain, and Smaug's personality which leads to the destruction of Lake-town.

In, Gandalf arranged ( and frequently accompanied ) a band of thirteen dwarves and the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins to reclaim from the dragon Smaug the Dwarves ' lost treasure in Erebor.

Smaug is a fictional character in the novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien and the main antagonist within the story.

These events occurred some 150 years before the events of The Hobbit, and Smaug was already centuries old at the time.

While neither of these appeared in the original printing of The Hobbit due to cost constraints both have been included in subsequent editions and Conversation with Smaug has been used extensively.

Death of Smaug was used for the cover of an early UK paperback edition of The Hobbit.

Smaug as he appears in the The Hobbit ( 1977 film ) | 1977 animated version of The Hobbit.

In the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit, Smaug was voiced by Richard Boone.

Smaug will appear in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, and on 16 June 2011, it was announced that he will be voiced and interpreted with performance capture by Benedict Cumberbatch.

The Hobbit relates how Bilbo Baggins, in comfortable middle age at 50 years old, is hired in spite of himself as a " burglar " by the wizard Gandalf and 13 dwarves led by their king Thorin Oakenshield on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and its treasure from the dragon Smaug.

Another reason was that Smaug would not recognize the scent of a Hobbit, advantageous to a stealthy operation and likely to distract the dragon's attention.

* The Hobbit ( voice of Smaug the Dragon ) ( 1977 )

He voiced Smaug in the 2003 video game adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

He will portray Smaug the Dragon through voice and motion capture and will also provide the motion capture for the Necromancer in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.

He will play Smaug the Dragon through motion capture and voice the Necromancer in The Hobbit: There and Back Again.

* He illustrated the scene of a dragon, a wizard and an armored archer on the first Dungeons & Dragons boxed set, " A simple composition, it shows a wand-waving magic user and a knight, his longbow drawn, squaring off against a dragon who sits – à la Smaug from The Hobbit – atop a vast pile of gold coins and jewels.

Freed of the Ring's power over his senses, Bilbo travelled to Rivendell, where for the next 17 years he lived a pleasant life of retirement: eating, sleeping, writing poetry, and working on his memoirs, There and Back Again, known to us as The Hobbit.

In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins and his Hobbit companions journeyed to Rivendell, where they met with Bilbo, who had retired there after his 111th birthday, spending his time on his memoirs, There and Back Again.

* The Hobbit: There and Back Again ( 2013 )

The subtitles of The Hobbit ( There and Back Again ) is depicted as part of a rejected title of this book-within-a-book, and The Lord of the Rings is a part of the final title.

* The Hobbit: There And Back Again ( 2014 )

* The Hobbit: There and Back Again ( 2013 )-Filming

There is also some fictional ' background ' information of those poems, linking them to the Hobbit folklore and literature as well as their actual writers ( some of them were written by Samwise Gamgee ).

* The Hobbit: There and Back Again ( 2014 )

* The Hobbit: There And Back Again ( 2013 )

In fact the author's preferred title for The Hobbit was The Hobbit or There and Back Again.

The title There and Back Again represents an archetypal Hobbit outlook on adventures.

* The Hobbit: There And Back Again ( 2014, screenplay, producer )

There is reference that sunlight will return them to the stone from which they were made in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

The plot of Novelist Pat Murphy's There and Back Again intentionally mirrors that of The Hobbit, but is transposed into a science-fiction setting involving space travel.

" There was a time when the Hobbit fantasies of Professor Tolkien were being taken very seriously indeed by a great many distinguished literary figures.