Just a decade ago, the film trilogy "Lord of the Rings" created a huge following in China. The franchise also built a solid reputation for its director and co-writer, Peter Jackson.

Now he is continuing his fantasy adventure on Middle Earth with his new film "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", which is set to hit the silver screens around the world.

In "The Hobbit" a young Bilbo, played by Martin Freeman, has no desire to hit the road after a company of dwarves turn up to enlist him on a quest to retake a dwarf mountain kingdom from the dragon that decimated it.

After much convincing Bilbo eventually leaves on an "unexpected journey," encountering trolls, goblins, and a grisly guy named Gollum.

Philippa Boyens, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", said, "It was interesting, because Professor Tolkien wrote ’The Hobbit’ first obviously but he continued to write that story, as you know, and there’s a lot of the events that relate to ’The Hobbit’ are told in ’The Lord of the Rings,’ they’re also told in the appendices of ’Lord of the Rings,’ so you know we had that chance to tell that part of the story."

Peter Jackson, Director/co-writer, said, "It’s almost like Tolkien never really stopped work on the book, even though it was published in 1937, he kept thinking of ideas that were filtered out. So we were able to take all those ideas and almost make ’The Hobbit Supersize’ as it were."

Like "The Lord of the Rings," Peter Jackson’s ambitious plan also includes three "Hobbit" movies, all of which have already been filmed.

Peter Jackson said, "Well there has to be the lighter touch from the book and it is, I mean it’s really the themes. It’s the dwarves and Bilbo are more inherently humorous and Tolkien wrote them in a fairly humorous way, but when you get to ’The Lord of the Rings’ obviously the ring has become this dominant feature. ’The Hobbit’ really is...the ring is just merely a passing sort of moment in ’the Hobbit,’ but in ’The Lord of the Rings’ suddenly it’s apocalyptic, it’s the fate of the world and Frodo has the weight of the world on his shoulders. So it definitely becomes a much more dramatic storyline. But we didn’t have to do that with ’The Hobbit’ and that was the joy of it - that we could be funny."

"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" will open worldwide in mid-December.

链接：霍比特人是谁？

霍比特人或称哈比人，托尔金的奇幻小说中虚构的民族，体型娇小，但并非侏儒。

根据托尔金在《魔戒》里的描述，霍比特人身高约为0.6米~1.2米。他们视力敏锐，听力高超，移动敏捷。其能快速无声地隐藏自己以躲避不速之客，行动之快在人类看来似是魔法，其实一半出于天赋、一半出于苦练。他们喜欢宁静、祥和、易耕种的土地，大多居住在乡野间低矮丘陵的洞穴和隧道中。

霍比特族身材圆润，拥有红扑扑的脸颊、卷曲的头发、尖轮廓的耳朵、宽厚的面孔、明亮的双眼和一张喜欢享受美食的大嘴。他们的个性温和善良，不喜欢复杂事物，对简单手工艺很有一套。他们的脚掌有坚硬肉垫和厚重褐色卷毛，所以不需要穿鞋子。他们喜欢颜色鲜艳的衣服，尤其是绿色和黄色。他们常开怀大笑、有时开点无伤大雅的小玩笑。霍比特人一日六餐。他们十分好客，喜欢互赠礼物、举办宴会。

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