(Here’s what thousands of rat bones reveal about the history of ‘hobbits’ on Flores.) Researchers began excavating Liang Bua Cave in 1999 and hoped to find evidence of modern humans ...

Who are these people? In J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings mythology, Stoors and Harfoots are both different kinds of Hobbits, the diminutive people who live in the Shire. But The Rings of Power ...

Scientists decoded the DNA of modern-day "pygmy" people to find out if they might be partly descended from the extinct Hobbit species. The remains of these Hobbits were found during an ...

Before you embark on your not-so-unexpected journey, allow us to explain the proper order of the Lord of the Rings movies and the Hobbit movies. We shall start by listing the titles in the order ...

Now a new study suggests ancestors of the hobbits were even slightly shorter. “We did not expect that we would find smaller individuals from such an old site,” study co-author Yousuke Kaifu ...

Following uncovered fossils in Indonesia, a new study on Tuesday suggested that ancestors of the so-called "hobbits" were even smaller than previously believed, according to the Nature Communications.

All three films from Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth epic "The Hobbit", following Bilbo Baggins' quest to defeat a powerful dragon.

Chef Sam Grainger said: "In walked three hobbits and an elf, and literally everyone was gobsmacked." The actors were set to appear at the Comic Con event at the city's exhibition centre.

continue their crusade to reclaim Erebor from the dragon Smaug in this fantasy that picks up where the events of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" left off.