The limestone cave of Liang Bua, on the Indonesian island of Flores, is widely known as the hobbit cave, the site where the surprisingly tiny and enormously controversial extinct human relative ...

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An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

The Hobbit trilogy depicted several important moments from The Lord of the Rings universe. From the Dwarves’ quest to the Misty Mountains, the defeat of the dragon Smaug, the battle of the five armies ...

that must produce thousands of words every year enjoy the exercise just as readers of The Hobbit, The Da Vinci Code and The Hunger Games have enjoyed the twists and turns of these famous tales.

Tulsa Opera is set to present “The Hobbit” as part of its Tulsa Youth Opera production. The famed work by J.R.R. Tolkien gets operatic life in a 90-minute adaptation by Dean Burry that will showcase ...

The Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires has published an annotated text corpus of some 6,000 Babylonian texts from the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. The texts have been ...

Unlike any other president, Donald Trump has tested the words and ideas in the literal text of the US Constitution, from the Preamble through the 27th Amendment. There are multiple passages he has ...

In this Primitive Survival video, I set out to build a hobbit-inspired home hidden beneath the roots of a massive forest tree. With no modern tools, only traditional techniques and raw materials ...