Conceptual illustrator, Nick Keller ("Avatar"), has updated his website with concept art that he created for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug. Hit the jump to check out alternate ...

Hit the jump to check out The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug character designs for various Orcs, Azog's Lieutenant, Thranduil, Elven Palace Guards and Evangeline Lilly's Tauriel.

Check out the concept art in our gallery below. There you will see alternate designs for the Azog’s son Bolg, Stumpy Troll, dark supernatural entities known as Wraiths, Battering Ram Troll and ...

Plus we’ve got concept art of Beorn in Bear form, a gaggle of hideous orcs and the Mirkwood spiders. Behold the great beasts of The Hobbit! Created by artist Andrew Baker, we cannot pull our ...

In October of 1936, J.R.R. Tolkien delivered to his publisher the manuscript of what would become one of the most celebrated fantasy books of all time. In ...

2. Azog The Defiler Azog never appears in the Hobbit novel, but he is certainly a character that was created by Tolkien. In the original back-story for Thorin Oakenshield, it was his father who ...

Weta designer Daniel Falconer talks about his new book and the glass blowers, sword-makers, potters, saddlers, calligraphers, and book-binders that help make The Hobbit movies.

A fair criticism of The Hobbit is the over reliance on CGI. Effects extravaganzas can work (as Gravity showed), but with these films the technology too far it just looks a little fake (and that's ...

In a conversation with THR, Bennett also reveals the big challenges of playing Azog, surprise praise he got from Martin Scorsese, and what he learned from Andy Serkis.. You joined the first Hobbit ...

Bennett, who plays Azog in “The Hobbit” movie franchise, was arrested Sunday after allegedly punching a man at an Alamo City Comic Con party, My San Antonio reports. The 45-year-old actor was ...

Manu Bennett, the actor behind Azog the Defiler from Peter Jackson’s "The Hobbit" trilogy, will be among the special guests at Aniventure Comic Con 2025 in Bulgaria. The event, set to take place ...