USA Today has just released a gallery of eight pictures from ‘The Hobbit; An Unexpected Journey’ including a nice shot of Sylvester McCoy as the Wizard Radagast the Brown. To see the pictures please click here.
Update: for a new shot of Bilbo click here.

Peter Jackson has announced the release, on Sept 19, of a new movie trailer as part of the Tolkien Week celebrations. The details can be found  here on the director’s Facebook Page.

Cate Blanchett was recently interviewed by the Spanish website Milenio.. To see what she had to say about reprising her role as Galadriel click here.

Now that a new “Hobbit” app has been released by Apple, a number of new stills from the first movie have become available. To see some of the new stills click here .
Along with these pics, images of other characters have also been released; for a pic of Elrond click here , for one of the Great Goblin click here , and for a pic of Thranduil click here .

Sept 11 Update. For a couple of images of wargs click here.

Warner Bros. and MGM have just announced the name and release date for the third Hobbit movie which will now be titled; ‘The Hobbit: There and Back Again’, and have officially changed the name of the second movie to;’ The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’. For more details click here .

While most of us are still coming to terms with the announcement that The Hobbit will be released as a trilogy, Peter Jackson discusses how much of Guillermo del Toro, the film’s original director, remains in the mix. Jackson took over the film back in 2010 when Del Toro dropped out of the film after two years of pre-production.

See just how much here .

SHERLOCK star Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed he is having to ‘lose his inhibitions’ to play Smaug the dragon in Peter Jackson’s new Hobbit trilogy.

The actor is not only voicing Smaug but also giving physical input through motion-capture technology that tracks his movements, expressions and gestures.

See the whole story here .

New pictures of Richard Armitage, as Thorin Oakenshield, have recently been released. To see a bust of Thorin click here and to see him wielding the sword ‘Orcrist’ click here .

Click here to see a picture of Radagast from the, soon to be released, 2013 “Hobbit” calendar, and to see the front and back covers of the calendar click here

Click here to see the Benedict Cumberbatch comment on just when we’ll see the Dragon Smaug.