Looking for the Hobbit

Name: Looking for the Hobbit
Director: Yannis Metzinger
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Documentary
Released: 2014-11-30T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 26 min
Rating: 4.9
Cast: John Howe, Nicolas Mezzalira

À la recherche du Hobbit (French for Looking for the Hobbit) is an exploratory documentary series directed by Olivier Simonnet in 2014, in which illustrator John Howe, story-teller Nicolas Mezzalira, and Professor Leo Carruthers of the University of Paris-Sorbonne explore real-world settings and famous myths that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's mythology. The documentary explores many locations of Medieval significance.

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Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Documentary

Looking for the Hobbit

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Folio Swami@FolioSwami

November 5, 2021

A chaotic ”let's make something about the Hobbit”. Fan interviews? Silly remarks about how New Zealand looks like Hobbitland. So it was not about the tax status for Jackson, but about Tolkien who never lived there.

There is hardly any material, so there are long breaks with soft music, people speaking slowly, and camera pans over boring exteriors.