Just a decade ago, the film trilogy "Lord of the Rings" created a huge following in China. The franchise also built a solid reputation for its director and co-writer, Peter Jackson.

Now he is continuing his fantasy adventure on Middle Earth with his new film "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", which is set to hit the silver screens around the world.

In "The Hobbit" a young Bilbo, played by Martin Freeman, has no desire to hit the road after a company of dwarves turn up to enlist him on a quest to retake a dwarf mountain kingdom from the dragon that decimated it.

After much convincing Bilbo eventually leaves on an "unexpected journey," encountering trolls, goblins, and a grisly guy named Gollum.

Philippa Boyens, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", said, "It was interesting, because Professor Tolkien wrote ’The Hobbit’ first obviously but he continued to write that story, as you know, and there’s a lot of the events that relate to ’The Hobbit’ are told in ’The Lord of the Rings,’ they’re also told in the appendices of ’Lord of the Rings,’ so you know we had that chance to tell that part of the story."

Peter Jackson, Director/co-writer, said, "It’s almost like Tolkien never really stopped work on the book, even though it was published in 1937, he kept thinking of ideas that were filtered out. So we were able to take all those ideas and almost make ’The Hobbit Supersize’ as it were."

Like "The Lord of the Rings," Peter Jackson’s ambitious plan also includes three "Hobbit" movies, all of which have already been filmed.

Peter Jackson said, "Well there has to be the lighter touch from the book and it is, I mean it’s really the themes. It’s the dwarves and Bilbo are more inherently humorous and Tolkien wrote them in a fairly humorous way, but when you get to ’The Lord of the Rings’ obviously the ring has become this dominant feature. ’The Hobbit’ really is...the ring is just merely a passing sort of moment in ’the Hobbit,’ but in ’The Lord of the Rings’ suddenly it’s apocalyptic, it’s the fate of the world and Frodo has the weight of the world on his shoulders. So it definitely becomes a much more dramatic storyline. But we didn’t have to do that with ’The Hobbit’ and that was the joy of it - that we could be funny."

"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" will open worldwide in mid-December.

鏈接：霍比特人是誰？

霍比特人或稱哈比人，托爾金的奇幻小說中虛構(gòu)的民族，體型嬌小，但并非侏儒。

根據(jù)托爾金在《魔戒》里的描述，霍比特人身高約為0.6米~1.2米。他們視力敏銳，聽力高超，移動敏捷。其能快速無聲地隱藏自己以躲避不速之客，行動之快在人類看來似是魔法，其實一半出于天賦、一半出于苦練。他們喜歡寧靜、祥和、易耕種的土地，大多居住在鄉(xiāng)野間低矮丘陵的洞穴和隧道中。

霍比特族身材圓潤，擁有紅撲撲的臉頰、卷曲的頭發(fā)、尖輪廓的耳朵、寬厚的面孔、明亮的雙眼和一張喜歡享受美食的大嘴。他們的個性溫和善良，不喜歡復雜事物，對簡單手工藝很有一套。他們的腳掌有堅硬肉墊和厚重褐色卷毛，所以不需要穿鞋子。他們喜歡顏色鮮艷的衣服，尤其是綠色和黃色。他們常開懷大笑、有時開點無傷大雅的小玩笑?；舯忍厝艘蝗樟?。他們十分好客，喜歡互贈禮物、舉辦宴會。

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