Hobbit

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows the characters Hera, voiced by Gaia Wise, left, and Wulf, voiced by Luke Pasqualino, in a scene from the animated film "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

The discovery of a tiny arm bone suggests that an ancient human dubbed "hobbits" only shrank down to their diminutive size after they arrived on an Indonesian island a million years ago, scientists said on Aug. 6.

Much about the pint-sized Homo floresiensis has been shrouded in mystery since the first fossils suggesting their existence were found on the island of Flores in 2003.

Streaming giant Amazon has defended the racially diverse casting of its big budget series "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," which some fans say distorts the world of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Although Wood hadn’t read **that** book, he had read The Hobbit, so was familiar, in part, with the world of Middle-earth

Hobbit Houses in the eastern province of Sivas fascinated the viewers after covered with snowfall on Jan. 14. 

The houses were built by the local municipality with inspiration from the Lord of the Rings movies.

The Hobbit Houses on the slopes of the mountains became a hotspot for photographs and those who wanted a day break from the city.

The construction of new "hobbit-style" terrace houses, seven kilometers from the city center in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas, is almost complete.

The Hobbits were arguably one of the most favourite creatures in J. R. Tolkien’s fantasy books and the highly successful movie adaptation. New Zealand has preserved the fantastical creatures’ homes created in the films and is exploiting their Hobbit holes for tourism. But there is actually a real Hobbit, and he is not in any fantasy book or movie. Meet Yuri Alekseyev.

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is in a legal row with Turkey over whether the character Gollum is good or bad. Dr. Bilgin Çiftçi is accused of insulting the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after he shared an image comparing Erdogan’s facial expressions with the gollum!

New Zealand has one of the most beautiful natural landscapes in the world. It’s beauty was revealed to a global audience when director Peter Jackson decided to shoot one of the most successful movies in film history, ‘Lord of the Rings’ on location. Hobbits, Orcs and all the folk of middle earth were roaming around New Zealand.

Two of the planned 100 houses to be built by the Sivas Municipality in Central Anatolia inspired by the world of Middle Earth have been completed.