As mentioned, Middle Earth is teeming with villainous folk, most of which want Bilbo, Thorin and co. dead. And where Thorin is concerned, that goes doubly so for Azog, the muscled, maimed, one-armed ...

Azog never appears in the Hobbit novel, but he is certainly a character that was created by Tolkien. In the original back-story for Thorin Oakenshield, it was his father who had fought with the Pale ...

When we last left the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and his dwarf companions, they had begun their quest to the Misty Mountains with the aid of Gandalf the Grey. The dwarves were determined to find the hidden ...

Poor Thorin Oakenshield — the would-be King under the mountain just can’t get a break. In The Hobbit, Azog the Defiler kills his Granddad, then he steals the dwarf’s favorite shield… and he’s not done ...

PLOT SUMMARY Continuing from where the previous film left off, Smaug flies off to Lake Town, where he wants to take revenge on the people there for helping his enemies. He breathes fire on the town ...