To read “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) at Christmas is to become alive to more ancient economic models of exchange, in which society operates through the giving and receiving of gifts.

Although Tolkien's novel The Hobbit begins in the Springtime and ends in Midsummer, it is pure Christmas. It begins with overwhelming numbers of unexpected visitors and much consumption of good food ...

7. Did Bilbo Already Pick Up The Arkenstone? It's easy to forget in amongst the molten gold finale of The Desolation Of Smaug that going into the Lonely Mountain was actually meant to be a covert ...

Since no inch of geekdom goes unexplored in our modern age, lawyer and author James Daily runs a website called Law And The Multiverse that examines the actual legality of the fictional laws in genre ...

Bilbo Baggins, hobbitual burglar, may well lift the Arkenstone from Smaug's lair, but it is writer Kevin Dyer and director Joe Sumsion who successfully '˜steal' the essence of The Hobbit in this ...