The thrill of Bilbo Baggins' journey hasn't faded in the slightest. For the third weekend in a row, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey remained No. 1 and reached over a whopping $220M in the domestic box office.

While The Hobbit topped the box office for the second straight weekend with $36.7 million (for a total of $149.8 million), a host of newcomers fought over the leftovers this Christmas weekend.

When news of Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey — J.R.R. Tolkien's child-friendly Middle-earthen odyssey — first reached my ears, the fantasy-loving reader inside of me cried out with joy.

Andy Serkis' transformation from moppet-headed Londoner to feral Hobbit, thanks to the wonders of computer graphics technology, is one of the great marvels of 21st Century filming.

Last night at midnight and this weekend there will be plenty of people lining up to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and creating lots of memories about the first time they saw the movie.

Traveling across the globe to promote a movie is an exhausting endeavor that can quickly suck the enthusiasm out of an actor.

Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins, only three feet tall. Bilbo! Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins, the bravest little hobbit of them all!

We've delved passionately into many adventures over the course of these past few months. Political season spawned the frightful warfare between pack animals (Donkeys Vs. Elephants) and snack foods (Pizza Vs. Burritos).

Did you recently attend a midnight screening of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey? Did you believe you had purchased a ticket to a magical fantasy world only to behold something that looked more like a made-for-TV affectation?

How do you know what you’re looking at is of the Fantasy genre? Is there magic of some kind? Yep. Robes and medieval-style garb?

Okay, so in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey there are 13 dwarves running about, all of whom have strange names, some of which rhyme.

Everywhere you look these days, you see a troll. Okay, that's not really true. It's not like trolls are Whitney Cummings or Joseph Gordon-Levitt movies. (Or are they?) But thanks to The Hobbit: How the Hell They Gonna Make This Into Three Movies, we're going to be paying a lot of attention to trolls.

You know what a "warg" is, right? It’s okay if you don’t. J.R.R. Tolkien’s works are full of words that require the ability to store an entire encyclopedia in one’s head.

Our excitement is brimming for the first of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit movies, with a so-close-you-can-taste-it (and likely will, for second breakfast) release on December 14.

There was a time when buying a ticket was a thoughtless process: show up to the box office (or in the 21st century, head to the web page to buy in advance), hand over your cash, enjoy two hours of entertainment.

We've heard legend tell of the power subsisting within the great warrior. An unparalleled spirit and unprecedented knowledge for the fantastical lore.

Do not go gentle into that good night — rage, rage against the dying of the light!

Taking our fierce anticipation for the first installment of Peter Jackson's forthcoming The Hobbit trilogy were reports earlier this month that production on the film resulted in the injuries and deaths of many animals on set.

Well isn't this just precccciiioouuusss — Warner Bros. will live stream the Tuesday, Nov. 27 world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and we have your front row ticket here on Hollywood.com.

Fans have long been anticipating the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on Dec. 14, but before the release could happen, negative news about the film has spread around the internet like wildfire.

Looks like not everyone in charge of the J.R.R. Tolkien estate is happy with the way the man's work has been utilized by film companies.

Peter Jackson's upcoming The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has excited many, promising the majesty that the director maintained through his The Lord of the Rings trilogy with the additional impish, fun-loving nature of the younger skewing tale.

We're in the final countdown: only a little over a month away from the theatrical release of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey!

Welcome to Air New Zealand, the official carrier for all flights to Middle Earth.

As we're nearing the release date of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Warner Brothers has begun the big marketing machine to get butts in the seats for the first part of Peter Jackson's second epic J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy about Middle Earth.

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? How many members of an allotted ethnic group does it take to screw in a light bulb?

The Hollywood Reporter hath come bearing some exceptionally awesome Stephen Colbert news today.

They set the date! They set the date! No, not Emily Maynard and Jef Holm. We stopped talking about them, remember?

With just five months to go before the theatrical release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, fans are clambering for every glimpse of Bilbo Baggins' Middle Earth they can get.

Hobbits might be satisfied with only two breakfasts, but they require three movies to adequately tell their story. It has been confirmed by Peter Jackson himself that the team behind The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again will be putting together a third episode of the story.

You can probably trace your appreciation for the time-consuming endeavor of film production back to an early high school class project that you thought would be more fun to videotape.