Looking for the Hobbit

Name: Looking for the Hobbit
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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Created By

Yannis Metzinger Alexis Metzinger

Status

Ended

Original Name

À la recherche du Hobbit

First Air Date

November 30, 2014

Last Air Date

December 26, 2014

Seasons

Episodes

Language

French

Production Companies

ARTE GEIE WDR Cerigo Films

Networks

ARTE ARTE

S01E05

The Creatures of the North

This final episode takes us to Iceland. Yet it is in Oxford, among students of the Tolkien Society, that the answers to the long search for the Hobbits lie. What if the Hobbits were born entirely from Tolkien's imagination? And what if they were purely and simply a projection of human beings, with their weaknesses and faults - and their capacity to change the world?

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