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Though The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is, in the main, a dwarf and orc sausagefest—with key male wizards, hobbits, elves and dragons at the center—there is, thankfully, Tauriel, a female elf. Not ...

Decades after Peter Jackson's beloved The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, his live-action version of Middle-earth is set to return in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum and The Lord of the ...

The main cast of Andy Serkis' upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum was announced back in April, consisting of fan favorites like Sir Ian McKellen, Lee Pace, and Elijah Wood, as well as ...

For the most part, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug was a better film than its predecessor, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The plot felt like it moved, the dwarves were grumpy and proud, and the ...

While some information has started to trickle out, information about Evangeline Lilly’s Tauriel, leader of the Woodland Guard in the forthcoming The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, is still somewhat ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...