It's no secret that The Hobbittrilogy is dramatically different from J. R. R. Tolkien's novel. For one thing, it's a single book rather than a series. In turning the adventure into three different ...

Smaug is slain by a black arrow fired by Bard the Bowman. While speaking with Corridor Crew, Willingham shares his pitch for Smaug's death in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, which would ...

Characters like Aragorn the humble ranger turned heroic leader, and Samwise the country hobbit turned saviour of the world, are what the Lord of the Rings is all about. Many fans feel that Peter ...

Readers of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” surely remember Bard the Bowman. Or maybe not. Though he performs a key task in the classic fantasy novel, the archer is not one of the book’s best ...

Some of the best Sonoran-style tortillas in the U.S. are being made far from the border, in a college town forty miles outside Kansas City. “It’s mustard color, the dress— / I must wear it ...

While it isn’t a bad move to flesh out Bard’s character to accommodate the running time, it plays like just another square-jawed hottie pulling focus from our titular hobbit. Additionally ...

An old castle, interior. Enter Hamlet, stage left. Hamlet, hi Mom. (laughing) And then, I did this cartoon a number of years ago. Hamlet's Duplex, 2B or Not 2B. That is the question. This is his ...

The Hobbit’s human characters are all super-forgettable, so I dunno — was Bard totally into pumpkin pie milkshakes? Probably not since he wasn’t depicted as being bedridden due to morbid ...

One of the most important messages highlighted in both the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Hobbit trilogy, is the idea that even the smallest person can change the course of destiny.

The Welsh actor - who has had supporting roles in Clash Of The Titans and Robin Hood among other things - recently revealed that Bard will have ... begin to know. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ...