The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Giveaway (Ends 4/16)

Eggs! Eggs it is!!!! If those phrases don’t send shivers up your spine, then you weren’t obsessed with Bass and Rankin’s animated The Hobbit movie from 1977. I must have watched that cartoon a million zillion times as a kid. Such a great story, great animation and clearly an emotional one as I’m still totally freaked out by the Gollum scenes. (Hence the “Eggs! Eggs it is!” from the riddle game that Bilbo plays with the lizardy …

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The Hobbit Movie is Coming and I Absolutely Cannot Wait to Go There and Back Again

I love riddles. Not the “Why did the chicken cross the road?” variety, but the “What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?” type. So when I first read J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit a number of decades ago, the scene where Hobbit Bilbo Baggins first confronts the creeptastic Gollum was easily my favorite part of the book. Not just because Gollum is such …

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