![]() ![]() Chosen by Gandalf ( Ian McKellan) as the “lucky number” addition to a company of thirteen, he journeys towards the Lonely Mountain to help the dwarf Thorin ( Richard Armitage) reclaim his ancestral homeland from a dragon that has taken up residence. He got a lot of help from cast members both old and new, topped by Martin Freeman’s pitch-perfect rendition of the put-upon hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. It works largely because the story remains so charming and Jackson knows it so well. Director Peter Jackson and his colleagues filled it by pulling huge amounts of backstory from Tolkien’s archives, as well as expanding the danger represented by the mysterious Necromancer (a subplot only hinted at in the book and basically used to get the wizard Gandalf out of the way). An Unexpected Journey covers only the first six chapters of The Hobbit, an impossibly small amount of time for such a large film. ![]()
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