After easily making $1 billion at the box office in just over three months, Peter Jackson’s fourth film in the increasingly misnamed Lord of the Rings The trilogy is released today on domestic media. And while the new addition to the franchise doesn’t quite reach the heights of the original three, it does a respectable job of mowing its own swath in the fertile grass of Middle-earth.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first of three films based on the original book, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. Another movie, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be released on December 13, 2013, while the last film, The Hobbit: There and Backwill hit theaters on December 17, 2014. However, for now, the focus is on the first film of the new trilogy.
To celebrate the film’s arrival on DVD, Blu-Ray, streaming, as a download, preferably on VHS, and any other form of home media you can imagine, we’ve rounded up a few facts about the film that you might not know.
Here are 10 things you might know about now The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey:
1. The Hobbit author JRR Tolkien initially devised a story that would be the basis for his own Lord of the Rings Saga when one sentence popped into his head: “In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit.” The sentence stuck in his head until he finally began writing the novel that would become it The Hobbit, which was finally published in 1937. Originally intended as a children’s fantasy story, the book went to print only after publisher Sir Stanley Unwin paid his 10-year-old son to read it. The boy gave the book excellent reviews, and the rest The Hobbit history.
2. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey earned a significant place in the history of cinema because it was the first feature film to be shot and shown in 48 frames per second. This frame rate is double the current industry standard (24 frames per second), and was used to create smoother, more fluid action and enhance the visual effect of watching a movie in 3-D. The end result is that some people loved it and some people hated it.
3. When JRR Tolkien sold the film rights The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, he demanded a guarantee that The Walt Disney Company would never be involved in adaptations of his work. Tolkien greatly loathed the studio’s eternally upbeat, bright and frequently changed adaptations of well-known stories, and had turned down several previous offers to make films based on his Middle-earth stories because the proposals seemed too “Disney” in their approach. Four years after his death, in 1977 The Hobbit it was adapted into an animated musical and released by Warner Bros. (see #7).
4. If you’ve ever wondered what happened in Middle-earth before The Hobbit or during the period in between The Hobbit and Lord of the Ringsa pair of critically acclaimed fan films explored these two periods in Tolkien’s mythology. Birth of hope and The Hunt for Gollum both based on Tolkien’s notes and his posthumously published chronology of Middle-earth, The Silmarillion.
5. “Gandalf” was not always the name of a wandering wizard in the The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. In the first drafts The HobbitTolkien named the mysterious wizard “Bladorthin” and named the leader of the dwarves “Gandalf”, which was later renamed “Thor’s Oakenshield”.
6. Actor Andy Serkis, who did the motion capture for Gollum in both The Hobbit and Lord of the Ringshe added to his resume by serving as director of the Second Unit for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. He was available for it because his scenes with Gollum are for The Hobbit all were shot early in production, leaving him to serve the rest of the project’s calendar behind the camera.
7. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was not the first adaptation of Tolkien’s work to receive significant praise at awards shows. 1977 animated feature film based on The Hobbit finished second to Star Wars in the “Best Dramatic Film” category of the prestigious Hugo Award. The project also won writer Romeo Muller a Peabody Award.
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8. If you’re wondering where Tolkien came up with a lot of stuff The Hobbit character names, many of them are borrowed from the “Poetic Edda”, a Norse poem dating from the 13th century in which characters with the names of 11 dwarves from The Hobbitas well as a character named “Gandalf”.
9. The families of several characters of elves and dwarves from Lord of the Rings trilogy play a significant role in The Hobbit, with some appearing (or referencing) in both series. Gimli, a dwarf who accompanies the company in Lord of the Rings trilogy, he is the son of Gloin (pictured right), one of the dwarves who accompanies Bilbo in the The Hobbit. Another dwarf from The HobbitBalin, mentioned in Lord of the Rings when the company discovers his tomb in the mines of Moria. Besides the dwarves, Thranduil (pictured right), the Elven King of Mirkwood who chooses not to fight Smaug at the start The Hobbit is the father of Legolas, the elven guardian from Lord of the Rings.
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10. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is not the first feature film based on a Tolkien novel. A 1985 Russian film titled “The Wonderful Journey of the Hobbit of Mr. Bilbo Baggins” holds that honor. The film was directed by Vladimir Latyshev, and dancers from the Leningrad State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater played many of the goblins and human characters.
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