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 ...

The undisputed standout in Peter Jackson's sixth and final Middle-earth movie The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies was Richard Armitage, whose rigorous performance as the increasingly deranged ...

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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 ...

As he promised ahead of the film's release, Peter Jackson took to the Lord of the Rings Appendices to flesh out the story of The Hobbit, and one element he explored and embellished is the story of ...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on an epic ...

Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) is the son of Thrain and the steadfast, outspoken leader of the 13 dwarves. Thorin cut off Azog's arm after the leader of the Orc army beheaded his grandfather, ...