The dwarves, in their small way, are no less possessed, and the joke is that a hobbit, who wishes nobody ill, should help to lead them into temptation.
Even a tax preparer who admits to liking tax season is unlikely to like second tax season and certainly not as much as a hobbit likes second breakfast.
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The decorative rice cakes at Jilsiru (Insadong St) are works of art, and turn down the nearby alley to sip quince tea in Yetchatjip, a hobbit-sized teashop echoing with water features, songbirds and gayageum (zither) music.
Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
The photos of the place almost make it look like a futuristic hobbit house.
While the Lord of the Rings movies often took themselves a little too seriously, The Hobbit is Saturday matinee fun on a huge scale.
As my colleague Mark Hughes will tell you emphatically, The Hobbit is a movie worth watching.
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The Hobbit is a nearly perfect book from a literary point of view.
The Hobbit - a sort of prequel to The Lord of the Rings - enjoyed great and instant success when it was published, in 1937.
The Hobbit takes a couple of unexpected detours from the novel, though it cleaves closer to the source than Fellowship of the Ring did in most respects.
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This could have sealed the case for the Hobbit as a new species, rather than a modern human pygmy or diseased individual - as some researchers have suggested it is.
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The Hobbit is a big, bold, beautiful triumph on every level, standing squarely on its own two feet rather than attempting to mimic the style and voice of its predecessors.
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But it turns out that while the director has been busy developing projects from The Hobbit to a movie version of The Haunted Mansion to Mountains, he has also quietly been working for DreamWorks Animation.
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Producers on The Hobbit finally resolved a sticky labor situation would could have set filming back months.
Jackson is taking a different tack with his Hobbit.
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As with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit opens with a scene not present in the original story: re-meeting older Bilbo (Ian Holm) and a heartbreakingly innocent Frodo (Elijah Wood).
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When I think of a handwritten edition of The Hobbit, my first thought is of dwarves hard at work at their desks, the sound of their pens scratching on paper echoing through the halls of Moria.
Jackson himself has said that it's not the best choice for every film, and you'll be able to watch a 24 fps version of Hobbit -- or future HFR films -- in 3D or 2D, if you want.
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"The Hobbit" is a brilliantly constructed story, unfolding themes that remain all too relevant to the modern world: the nature of evil, the significance of human choice, the corrupting power of greed and the ease with which good people can be drawn into destructive conflict.
The company also took into consideration amenities mentioned in The Hobbit, such as a potato garden and a plethora of pantries.
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When a 48 frames-per-second version of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was released, some viewers questioned whether high frame rates necessarily translate to a better viewing experience.
An ancient gold ring thought to have inspired JRR Tolkien to write The Hobbit is on display at a Tudor house.
Peta Conn, consul-general for New Zealand in New York, gathered some of the facts, which she shared at a New York City screening of The Hobbit.
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Until then expect a tug-of-war between Hobbit-town and the City.
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Epic in its own way, The Hobbit starts as light as a feather and never manages the level of impending doom that the Lord of the Rings trilogy reached.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a roaring success.
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Tsunami drama The Impossible, raunchy comedy Movie 43, the 3D re-release of Monsters, Inc. and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey complete a Top 10 rounded off by The Last Stand in 10th place.
And given that he and James Cameron are firmly behind it -- and have seen more than just about anyone else -- we're ready to think that HFR has a future, even before we see the Hobbit for ourselves.
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