Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment I can’t tell you ... In many was, that is the entire point of The Hobbit, and what makes Bilbo Baggins such a compelling hero. He likes comfort and safety ...

Animated under the direction of Kenji Kamiyama, the film easily surpasses the live-action Hobbits. Set 200 years before Bilbo Baggins gained possession of The One Ring, the film tells of the ...

When I think of the new animated movie “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” I think of the words of the legendary public speaker Bilbo Baggins, who probably would have described ...

"The Hobbit" was, to quote Bilbo Baggins, "stretched...like butter scraped over too much bread" and clearly something produced more for revenue than actual love and reverence for the source material.

When it comes to the hero's journey, few characters illustrate the refusal of the call as well as Bilbo Baggins, who would much prefer his armchair and a cup of tea to fighting vicious goblins and ...