Peter Jackson takes an unexpectedly cute approach in the first Hobbit movie


Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) leads a dragonslaying quest in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first of three films based on the fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. Photo: Warner Bros.

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