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I think the two mains reasons behind this are: That Sauron is slowly increasing his powers over the whole timeline of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings - the stories of which take place over an 80 year period. That Bilbo never receives the attention of Sauron in quite the same way that Frodo does. Bilbo's 111th birthday party which starts the story ...

That gate to Moria was created in the "Second Age" of Middle Earth, and was used to trade mithril with the Noldorian Elves of Hithlum. Relations between the Elves and the Dwarves were more cordial in the Second Age. The inscription and password on the gate created by Celebrimbor, the leader of the Elves of Noldor, hence is in elvish. Celebrimbor also ...

After battling the Balrog for 8 days, Gandalf defeated it, but in so doing also died. Something to note, Gandalf is not a normal person, he is an Istari, a group of being sent by the Valar to assist the peoples of Middle-earth in their battle against Sauron. (The short version is they're supernatural beings sent by higher powers) By dying when he did, ...

I am delivering here a relevant portion of a forum thread concerning the immortality of mortals who pass to the Undying Lands. It seems that Christopher Tolkien used many of his father's letters to accumulate a fair body of knowledge about Middle Earth and its rules in The Silmarillion, but that some letters specific to the life and death of Frodo and Bilbo ...

Gandalf is one of the Istari - practically immortal creatures put in middle earth to guide and help its inhabitants. He is therefore very long lived and has picked up a lot of different names or nick-names to different people at different times. Mithrandir is a Sindarin phrase meaning Grey Pilgrim or Wanderer (ref: Tolkein Gateway). Sindarin is the ...

The Fellowship of the Ring contains a description from Gandalf about his thoughts about what happens after Bilbo takes the ring. Gollum is afraid of the light after so many years living under the misty mountains so it takes some time before he leaves them to search for the ring. Gandalf then surmises that, because of his very long association with the ...

Smeagol was a Stoor Hobbit before the ring corrupted him. This means he was from Gladden Fields just east of the Misty Mountains. According to the link below he did go searching for the ring but he waited until 2 years after Bilbo took the ring. He spent almost the next 60 years either searching or being captured. I reckon he never went to the Shire ...

You are correct, Bilbo is 50 when he meets Gandalf in the Hobbit ... in Third Age 2941, 60 years before the party in TA 3001, at the start of the Lord of the Rings. He will turn 51 later that year in the story. Hobbits live longer then Humans, shown by the fact that Bilbo's age at the party of 111 is not that unusual, what is unusual is how young he looks ...

From a FAQ about the Rings: Was Sauron visible when wearing the Ring? Though Tolkien never answered this question directly, most opinion in r.a.b.t is that Sauron was visible even while wearing the Ring. The Rings of Power (except the Three) made their wearers invisible by shifting them mostly into the Unseen world. But Sauron already lived ...

It looks like Frodo is being shoe-horned into The Hobbit to keep audiences happy (general audiences, mind you, not LotR fans who are not pleased with this news). According to a report from AICN: What’s Frodo doing in The Hobbit? I don’t want to spoil too much, but I can say that Frodo is part of the connecting tissue between The Hobbit and Fellowship of ...

Frodo saw the effect the ring had on Boromir (Sean Bean), and knew that eventually it would corrupt the rest of the Fellowship. No one is immune to the ring. Even, Gandalf and Galadriel refused to touch it. Frodo as a hobbit, is a bit resistant to the ring, but not completely impervious to it's influence. This is something that Lady Galadriel had foretold ...

Aragorn didn't shatter the blade. When Lurtz threw the blade at him Aragorn used his own sword to deflect it. I'll see if I can get a screencap and put it up. Okay, after several tries I cannot get a decent screen cap that clearly shows the blade. It just looks like a flashing blur.

There are indications that other prologue narrations were considered, and you might find what you are looking for on the Extended Edition DVD. From the DVD Journal review of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition Under the menu for Visualizing the Story you'll find a featurette called Storyboards and Pre-Viz: Making Words ...

The elves are immortal by nature and it isn't Valinor that makes them immortal (they would have lived forever in Middle Earth, too, they just go to a nicer place to live). Likewise does it not cause the mortal hobbits to live forever. It is called the Undying Lands because only immortals live there and not the other way around. But on the other hand, this ...

Frodo leaves Middle-earth for the Undying Lands with Gandalf, Bilbo, Elrond, Celeborn, and Galadriel. This is considered a mystical land, home to the Valar, a race of 'angelic' elves also known as the 'masters of spirits'. From the LotR wiki: In TA 3021 (Third Age), Círdan the Shipwright accompanied Elrond, Galadriel, and Gandalf, the Keepers of the ...

Part of it was hobbit nature. The Hobbits weren't included as a race that Sauron tried to convert to his power with rings. They were beneath his notice. There seemed to be something exceptional in the Hobbits nature that really only Gandalf seemed to notice. They had a single minded simplistic view of life. This can be seen in there constant desire to not ...

I did not read the novels. I am answering from the movies (LOTR series) I saw. When Elronde called the council of the races, they started fighting over what should be done to the ring. Boromir was allured by it almost instantaneously. It became clear to Gandalf and others within sometimes that they need a person who is not greedy for power and who can not ...

This excerpt is from the LoTR wiki:Gandalf and the Balrog fell for a long time, and Gandalf was burned by the Balrog's fire...Then darkness took Gandalf, and he passed away. His body lay on the peak. The entire battle, from the confrontation on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm to the mutual demise of the Balrog and Gandalf, had taken eight days...Nineteen days later ...

In the book, they meet inside the gates of the City. Pippin says that Gandalf send him to look for Merry. From beginning of the chapter "The Houses of Healing": Slowly the lights of the torches in front of him flickered and went out, and he was walking in a darkness; and he thought: ‘This is a tunnel leading to a tomb; there we shall stay for ...

The relevant information can be found in the Lord of the Rings wiki here:. The description places the mountains: The White Mountains formed the northern boundary of Gondor and the southern boundary of Rohan except in their easternmost provinces, where Gondor's province of Anorien lay to the north of the mountains.The entrance to the Paths of the Dead is ...

From the Encyclopedia of Arda: Even Gandalf had never explored there, and though Aragorn had travelled there, we have no report of his doings. Of its ancient geography we can glean a little from the Silmarillion: far beyond the Sea of Rhûn was another inland sea, the Sea of Helcar, and beyond that a range of red mountains known as the ...

The scenes with Frodo, played by Elijah Wood, were filmed specifically for The Hobbit, as in within the shooting schedule for the movie, and not during making of LOTR movies. This article mentions Elijah being excited to return to Middle Earth!

Quoting from Wikipedia: The son of Arathorn II and his wife Gilraen, Aragorn was born on 1 March, T.A. 2931.1 Through his ancestor Elendil (whom he closely resembled)[2] Aragorn was a descendant of the first king of Númenor, Elros Tar-Minyatur; the twin brother of Elrond. When Aragorn was two years old, his father was killed while pursuing orcs. ...

They were new scenes made for The Hobbit. Interviews with Elijah Wood show that he was excited to be back on set in New Zealand ten years after the LotR movies were shot. (I will try to find one and link to it). Also the fact the movie was entirely shot in 48fps 3D also indicates that these are new scenes.

Frodo also KNEW more of the ring than Bilbo (Gandalf told Frodo whereas with Bilbo he pretty much just kept an eye on the hobbit). That knowing would alter how Frodo would use the ring - whether he willed it or not. Additionally, Bilbo never sought to DESTROY the ring, thus the Ring had no reason to protect itself from Bilbo and therefore had less of a grip ...

The elves in the woods were the elves of Lothlorien, ruled by Celeborn and Galadriel (also known as the Lady of the Wood). Legolas on the other hand is a prince of Mirkwood, a completely different forest realm. So it's not that surprising that Legolas doesn't know anyone there.

There is not a great amount of detail about what is east of Rhun. Taken from The lord of the rings wiki: Of its ancient geography we can glean a little from The Silmarillion; far beyond the Sea of Rhûn was another inland sea, the Sea of Helcar, and beyond that a range of red mountains known as the Orocarni (Red Mountains). Somewhere in the lost east, ...

I asked this question on Facebook to a couple of friends of mine (Pablo Hidalgo, content manager and author for Lucasfilm, and Mark Newbold, writer for Star Wars Insider) and as far as they know, this rumor isn't true. Lucas certainly saw Tolkien's work as an influence, but he didn't actively seek to acquire the rights.

At the start of the battle, Aragorn led the elf warriors, and he did so using the elvish language. They were all in a group on the wall, and this was where Gimli was. It stands to reason that in preparation for the battle, anyone who was in that group would be briefed on the various commands that Aragorn would use. So I'd argue that off-camera Gimli was ...

There are several possible explanations: The word for ladders in Elvish is similar to the word for it in Dwarvish Gimli learned the word from talking to Legolas and Aragorn during the time they spent together and his good relation with Legolas Gimli heard the word during battle strategy meetings Gimli knows a bit of Elvish. The Elvish tongue was not kept ...