The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first film of , lasting 3 hours and 2 minutes. It was directed by Peter Jackson, who previously had directed . It was a major box office success, grossing over $1.017 billion worldwide. The film is the fourth Middle-earth film adaptation to be released, and the first chronologically.
Martin Freeman portrays a young Bilbo Baggins and Ian Holm reprises his role as an older Bilbo Baggins. Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis reprise their roles as Gandalf and Gollum, respectively, as do Hugo Weaving and Cate Blanchett, as Elrond and Galadriel.
The character of Radagast the Brown appears in the movie and is portrayed by Sylvester McCoy, who had been known mostly for his portrayal as the seventh incarnation of The Doctor on Doctor Who.
== Plot ==
A reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of Dwarves to reclaim their mountain home, and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/
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== Development ==
== Credits ==
==== Main ====
*Ian McKellen as Gandalf
*Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins
*Richard Armitage as Thorin II Oakenshield
*Ken Stott as Balin
*Graham McTavish as Dwalin
*William Kircher as Bifur
*James Nesbitt as Bofur
*Stephen Hunter as Bombur
*Dean O'Gorman as Fíli
*Aidan Turner as Kíli
*John Callen as Óin
*Peter Hambleton as Glóin 
*Jed Brophy as Nori
*Mark Hadlow as Dori
*Adam Brown as Ori
==== Minor ====
*Ian Holm as Old Bilbo
*Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins
*Hugo Weaving as Elrond
*Cate Blanchett as Galadriel
*Christopher Lee as Saruman
*Andy Serkis as Gollum
*Sylvester McCoy as Radagast
*Barry Humphries as Great Goblin
*Jeffrey Thomas as Thrór
*Michael Mizrahi as Thráin
*Lee Pace as Thranduil
*John Rawls as Yazneg
*Stephen Ure as Fimbul
*Timothy Bartlett as Master Worrywort
*William Kircher as Tom
*Peter Hambleton as Bert
*Mark Hadlow as William
*Bret McKenzie as Lindir
*Stephen Ure as Grinnah
*Kiran Shah as Goblin Scribe
*Manu Bennett as Azog
*Conan Stevens as Gundabad Orc Chieftain
*Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug and Necromancer
*Glenn Boswell as Dwarf Miner
*Thomas Robins as Young Thráin
==== Extended Edition only ====
*Luke Evans as Girion
*Dan Hennah as The Old Took
*Stephen Gledhill as Old Gammidge
*Tim Gordon as Old Hob
*Oscar Strik as Little Bilbo
*Sonia Forbes-Adam as Belladonna (Took) Baggins
*Erin Banks as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
*Brian Hotter as Otho Sackville-Baggins
*Eric Vespe as Fredegar Chubb
*Mervyn Smith as Tosser Grubb
*Ruby Acevedo as "Cute Young Hobbit"
*Katie Jackson
*Honor McTavish
*Louis Serkis
*Ruby Serkis
*Sonny Serkis
==== Uncredited ====
===== People of Dale =====
*Mary Nesbitt
*Peggy Nesbitt
*Many unknowns
===== Dwarves of the Lonely Mountains =====
*Dave Dyer
*Peter Jackson
*Jabez Olssen
*James Wells
*Richard Whiteside
*Many unknowns
===== Mirkwood Elves =====
*Brendan Casey
*Cameron Jones
*Carl Van Room
*Few unknowns
===== Hobbits of the Shire =====
*Joan Z. Dawe
*Chris Kern
*Melissa Kern
*Aaron Morgan
*Kaela Morgan
*Ravi Narayan
*Many unknowns
===== Hunter Orcs =====
*Frazer Anderson
*George Harach
*Christian Hipolito
*Ane Kirkeng Jørgensen
*Joseph Mika-Hunt
*Elliot Travers
*Many unknowns
===== Elves of Rivendell =====
*Jared Blakiston
*Shane Boulton
*Melanie Carrington
*Andrew Fitzsimons
*Luke Hawker
*Dean Knowsley
*Luke Wilson
*Many unknowns
===== Goblins =====
*Shane Boulton
*Renee Cataldo
*Ben Fransham
*Tim McLahlan
*Nathan Meister
*Ravi Narayan
*Terry Notary
*Thomas Rimmer
*Kiran Shah
*James Trevena-Brown
*Mark Trotter
*Others
== Appearances and mentions ==
== Deviations from the book ==
*Elijah Wood appears briefly as Frodo Baggins, while this character does not appear in the book. However, his appearance is purely a cameo as the set-up for the movie, as the Red Book of Westmarch is being written and read by Bilbo, shortly before the start of .
*The Dwarves do not arrive in order (first Dwalin, then Balin, then Kíli and Fíli, then Óin, Glóin, Dori, Nori, Ori, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur all at once, and then Thorin arrives significantly later) and they do not have their multi-colored hoods or beards as they did in the book.
*Bilbo was shown to be allergic to Horses.
*The Dwarves surrender when the Trolls threaten to rip Bilbo in two instead of being overpowered and popped into bags.
*Bilbo goes to the Trolls because they steal the Dwarves' ponies.
*In the book, it was Gandalf that stalled the trolls until they turned into stone. This was done by Bilbo in the film.
*The trolls' cave is wide open, and there is no locked door blocking it.
*In the book, Bilbo finds Sting and takes it. In the film, Gandalf comes upon it and gives it to Bilbo.
*The group is attacked by Orcs on the way to Rivendell, just after the Trolls sequence in the movie. This did not happen in the book.
*Radagast the Brown aids the Dwarves in escaping the Orc Warg-riders near Rivendell. In contrast, Radagast did not appear in the book at all, and there is only one mention of him.
*Radagast investigates the darkness of Mirkwood, and at Dol Guldur encounters the Necromancer and the Witch-king of Angmar, with whom he briefly duels and from whom he takes a Morgul Blade. In contrast, Tolkien never wrote of any such incident.
*Azog has survived the War of the Dwarves and Orcs in which he was wounded by Thorin, who cut off his arm, and hunts Thorin Oakenshield and his followers. In contrast, in the Tolkien literature Azog was beheaded by Thorin's cousin Dáin Ironfoot in the Battle of Azanulbizar, well before the events of . The events of leading to and included in the battle are also altered: Thrór leads an army to Moria to reclaim it as opposed to investigating it with a single companion, and he is beheaded during the battle while in the books this occurred several years beforehand. The origin of Thorin's name of Oakenshield is taken from the appendices of The Return of the King, but here takes place during battle with Azog and involves him picking up an oaken branch rather than cutting it off a tree.
*While at Rivendell with Thorin's party, Gandalf meets with Elrond, Galadriel, and Saruman (the film's version of the White Council) and relates Radagast's news about Mirkwood, but Saruman discounts Radagast's news about the Necromancer, who he says must be no more than a human pretending to be a wizard. This conflicts with Tolkien's version, in which the White Council already knew that the Necromancer was Sauron and was at Dol Guldur, since Gandalf had already confirmed this 89 years earlier, and Saruman had discovered two years earlier (although he did not inform the Council of this) that Sauron had learned of Isildur's loss of the One Ring at the Gladden Fields by the river Anduin and his servants were searching the area. Accordingly, in Tolkien's original version, in the year of the events of The Hobbit, Saruman finally agreed to an attack on Dol Guldur because he wanted to prevent Sauron from finding the Ring., Appendix B
*There is no mention of Galadriel in the book, although she is part of the White Council.
*At the White Council meeting, Galadriel relates how the Witch-king of Angmar, after his defeat near Fornost, had been killed and sealed in a tomb in that could not be opened in the High Fells. This is a serious departure from canon (Tolkien's writings), in which the Witch-king had not died, but fled. In fact, Glorfindel had stopped pursuit of the Witch-king and prophesied, "Do not pursue him! He will not return to these lands. Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man will he fall."J.R.R. Tolkien, , Appendix A (I, iv). This prophecy, of course, was the basis for the later dramatic moment in The Lord of the Rings in which Éowyn was able to kill the Witch-king because she was not a man. This prophecy no longer makes sense if the Witch-king had already been killed and is now (as Saruman implies) just a spirit raised by a necromancer who could "summon the dead." Furthermore, per Tolkien the White Council knew the Witch-king had not been killed because he and the rest of the Nazgûl had previously been fighting with Gondor and had captured (and presumably killed) the last King of Gondor at Minas Morgul in TA 2050, long after he had fled Fornost. It is possible, however, that the Ringwraiths could not die due to their Wraith nature and were imprisoned in the tombs, and only Sauron had the power to call them forth. As for how they presumably killed the last King of Gondor, Galadriel never specifically says if the other Ringwraiths were sealed in the High Fells along with the Witch-king when Angmar fell. So it is possible that the other Ringwraiths challenged and killed Eärnur, and were defeated and sealed with their leader centuries later.
*When traveling along the mountain pass, Bilbo observes the stone-giants hurling rocks at a distance, "across the valley." Bilbo and his companions take refuge under a hanging rock during the thunderstorm (thunder-battle), but are never involved in the stone-giants' game.
*In the book, it was Bilbo that alerted the party when the trapdoors in the Front Porch open. In the film, the Dwarves realize this just as they fall into the hole.
*In the book, the Goblins only had tunnels, not rope bridges.
*In the book, Bilbo is with the Dwarves when they are taken to the Great Goblin and later rescued by Gandalf. In the film, Bilbo is separated from the group and falls to Gollum's cave before the Dwarves are taken to the Great Goblin.
*In the book , as in the prologue to film, Bilbo Baggins finds the One Ring by chance when his hand happens to fall upon it as he is crawling through one of the dark Goblin-town tunnels, well before he comes across Gollum. In this film, Bilbo sees Gollum fighting with a Goblin and we see Gollum drop the Ring during the fight.
*Gollum has six teeth in the book, not nine.
*In the book, when Gollum and Bilbo were playing the game of riddles, the cave was pitch black and Bilbo could only see Gollum's glowing eyes and hear his voice echoing through the walls of the cave. In the film, the cave was partly lit up and Bilbo could see Gollum entirely.
*In the book, Gandalf saves the Dwarves in the goblin cave with a storm of burning smoke and instantly slays the Goblin King with his blade. In the film, the Goblin King is merely knocked aside in this scene (though many of his minions die in the telekinetic blast), and slain later on.
*In the film, Gandalf does not use multi-colored fire when lighting the pine cones.
=== Extras ===
File:The Hobbit Quizzing the Dwarves|Quizzing the Dwarves
File:The Hobbit Martin Freeman Community Interview|Community Interview w/ Martin Freeman
== Extended Edition ==
The of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was released on October 22, 2013 for digital downloads and November 5 2013 for hard copies. It includes these scenes:
#The introduction. The Elvenking Thranduil is given more screen time. He approaches the throne while Thráin gestures for a Dwarf to show Thranduil a chest of gems. As Thranduil looks entranced and reaches for it, the Dwarf closes the lid. Bard's ancestor Girion is given screen time. He is seen behind his Wind lance attempting to shoot down Smaug during the dragon's attack on Dale.
#Bilbo's introduction to himself. A flashback wherein a young hobbit boy comes running up to Gandalf and plays with him. His mother Belladonna runs after him and acknowledges Gandalf as an old friend.
#After Bilbo meets Gandalf on the front bench, he buys supper from Hobbiton while suspiciously looking around everywhere to make sure Gandalf is not around.
#Kíli glances over to a female Elf in Rivendell and winks at her. Dwalin sees him and Kíli begins making excuses. In one of his excuses, he mistakenly calls another male Elf a female and Dwalin corrects him. The rest of the Dwarves laugh much to Kíli's embarrassment.
#While eating, Nori and Óin complain about the song played by the Elf musicians. Bofur climbs up a platform and begins singing. The other Dwarves join in and start throwing food around. Elrond and Lindir look surprised and angry about Dwarves activities because they start throwing fruit to Elrond, Lindir and Bofur but they say nothing about it.
#Bilbo is wandering around Rivendell during the daytime. He approaches the statue holding the shards of Narsil before a particular painting catches his eye. The painting depicts Isildur about to cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand. Bilbo is particularly interested in the One Ring on Sauron's hand.
#A conversation between Bilbo and Elrond in Rivendell. Elrond also welcomes Bilbo to stay in Rivendell if he wishes.
#Lindir complains to Elrond about the Dwarves' behavior. They find them swimming in a large fountain.
#Gandalf and Elrond further discuss Thorin and Company's quest. Elrond voices his concern of Thorin himself, since both his grandfather and father succumbed to madness. Bilbo and Thorin overhear this conversation.
#At the White Council, Gandalf brings up the fact that the Ring of Power once owned by Thorin's father mysteriously vanished. Saruman dismisses this as it would be of no use since all believe the One Ring was lost long ago.
#A new song from the goblin king and longer interrogation.
== Trivia ==
*Guillermo del Toro was originally on board to direct, but bowed out due to "ongoing delays in the setting of a start date for filming."
*When it appeared Martin Freeman would not be available to play Bilbo in due to scheduling conflicts with the BBC television series Sherlock, other actors such as James McAvoy and Tobey Maguire were considered. A false rumour was spread online that David Tennant was considered, but both Tennant and Jackson denied this. Tennant was actually considered for (and offered) the role of Thranduil but had to turn it down when his girlfriend discovered she was pregnant.
*Ryan Gage was originally cast to play Drogo Baggins, father of Frodo Baggins. According to Peter Jackson, "Ryan is a great young actor who we originally cast in a small role, but we liked him so much, we promoted him to the much larger Alfrid part."
*This is the only film in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogies in which Legolas makes no appearance.
*The scene when Bilbo first puts on the Ring is very similar to the scene in where Frodo puts on the Ring in The Prancing Pony.
*The filmmakers titled the project Little Rivers to aid in hiding the film's identity.
*When a Giant Eagle grabs Thorin's unconscious body, his oak-log shield falls off his arm and is permanently left behind.
*This was both the last film not distributed by Disney, Universal or Paramount and the last film distributed by Warner Bros. to gross $1 billion until the release of Aquaman in 2018.
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== Translations ==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Die Hobbit: 'N Onverwagte Reis
Albanian 	Hobiti: Një Udhëtim i Papritur
Arabic 	الهوبيت: رحلة غير متوقعة
Armenian 	Հոբիթ։ Անսպասելի ճանապարհորդություն
Assamese 	দ্য হবিট: এণ অপ্ৰত্যাশিত যাত্ৰা
Azerbaijani 	Hobbit: Gözlənilməz bir səyahət
Basque 	Hobbita: Ezusteko Bidaia
Belarusian Cyrillic	Хобіт: Нечаканае падарожжа
Bengali 	হব্বিত: একটি অপ্রত্যাশিত জার্নি
Bosnian 	Hobit: Neočekivano putovanje
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Хобит: Неочаквано пътешествие
Catalan 	El Hobbit: Un Viatge Inesperat
Chinese 	霍比特人：意外旅程
Croatian 	Hobit: Neočekivano putovanje
Czech 	Hobit: Neočekávaná cesta
Danish 	Hobbitten: En Uventet Rejse
Dutch 	De Hobbit: Een Onverwachte Reis
Esperanto 	La Hobito: Neatendita Vojaĝo
Estonian 	Kääbik: Ootamatu teekond
Finnish 	Hobitti – Odottamaton matka
French 	Le Hobbit: Un voyage inattendu
Frisian 	De Hobbit: In ûnferwachte reis
Galician 	O Hobbit: Unha Viaxe Inesperada
Georgian 	ჰობიტი: მოულოდნელი მოგზაურობა
German 	Der Hobbit: Eine unerwartete Reise
Greek 	Χόμπιτ: Ένα Αναπάντεχο Ταξίδι
Haitian Creole 	La Hobbit: Yon vwayaj inatandi
Hebrew 	ההוביט: מסע בלתי צפוי
Hindi 	होबिट: एक अप्रत्याशित यात्रा
Hungarian 	A hobbit: Váratlan utazás
Icelandic 	Hobbitinn: Óvænt ferð
Indonesian 	Sang Hobbit: Sebuah Petualangan Tak Terduga
Irish Gaelic 	An Hobad: Turas Gan choinne
Italian 	Lo Hobbit: Un viaggio inaspettato
Japanese 	ホビット 思いがけない冒険
Kannada 	ಹೊಬ್ಬಿಟ್: ಅನ್ ಅನಿರೀಕ್ಷಿತ ಜರ್ನಿ
Kazakh 	Хоббит: Күтпеген саяхат (Cyrillic) Xobbït: Kütpegen sayaxat (Latin)
Korean 	호빗: 뜻밖의 여정
Kurdish 	ھۆبیت: گەشتێکی چاوەڕواننەکراو (Sorani) Hobbîto: Nepa Gerr (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Хоббит: Күтүлбөгөн сапар
Laotian 	ຮອບບິດ: ເປັນການເດີນທາງທີ່ບໍ່ຄາດຄິດ
Latin 	Hobbitus Ille: Manat itinere
Latvian 	Hobits: Negaidīts ceļojums
Lithuanian 	Hobitas: Netikėta kelionė
Macedonian Cyrillic	Хобитот: Неочекувано патување
Malayalam 	ദി ഹോബിറ്റ്: ഒരു അപ്രതീക്ഷിത യാത്ര
Malaysian 	Hobbit: Perjalanan Mengejutkan
Maltese 	L-Hobbit: Xi vjaġġ mhux mistennija
Marathi 	द हॉबिट: अनपेक्षित प्रवास
Mingrelian 	ჰობიტი: მუკორჩქინელი შარობუა
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Хоббит - Санаандгүй Аялал
Nepalese 	होब्बित: एक अनपेक्षित यात्रा
Norwegian 	Hobbiten: En uventet reise
Persian 	هابیت: یک سفر غیرمنتظره
Polish 	Hobbit: Niezwykła podróż
Portuguese 	O Hobbit: Uma Viagem Inesperada (Portugal)
O Hobbit: Uma Jornada Inesperada (Brazil)
Punjabi 	ਹੋਬਿਟ: ਇੱਕ ਅਚਾਨਕ ਯਾਤਰਾ
Romanian 	Hobbitul: O călătorie neașteptată
Russian 	Хоббит: Нежданное путешествие
Scottish Gaelic 	An Hàbad: Turas gun dùil
Serbian 	Хобит: Неочекивано путовање (Cyrillic) Hobit: Neočekivano putovanje (Serbo-Croatian)
Slovak 	Hobit: Neočakávaná cesta
Slovenian 	Hobit: Nepričakovano potovanje
Spanish 	El Hobbit: Un Viaje Inesperado
Swahili 	Hobbit: Safari zisizotarajiwa
Swedish 	Hobbit: En oväntad resa
Tamil 	ஹாபிட்: எதிர்பாராத பயணம்
Telugu 	ది హాబిట్: అనుకోని ప్రయాణం
Thai 	เดอะ ฮอบบิท: การผจญภัยสุดคาดคิด
Turkish 	Hobbit: Beklenmedik Yolculuk
Tuvinian 	Хоббит: Манавааны аян-чорук
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Хоббіт: Несподівана подорож
Uzbek 	Ҳоббит: кутилмаган саёҳат (Cyrillic) Hobbit: kutilmagan sayohat (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Người Hobbit: Hành trình bất ngờ
Welsh 	Hobbit: Ar Daith Annisgwyl
Yiddish 	די האָבביט: אַ אומגעריכט נסיעה
== References ==
== External links ==
*Official site of The Hobbit films
*Trailer for the movie
*Differences between the book and the film
Category:Films directed by Peter Jackson
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