COLLECTION · Series · 2014

Looking for the Hobbit

Name: Looking for the Hobbit
Genre: Documentary, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Rating: 5.5

À la recherche du Hobbit

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.

Source: TMDB

* 5.5 (5)DocumentaryFantasyScience FictionFrance

Soundtrack

Google

Directors

Olivier Simonnet

Creators

Yannis Metzinger · Alexis Metzinger

Countries

France

Studios

ARTE · ARTE GEIE · WDR · Cerigo Films

Release

30/11/2014

Score

5.5 / 10 (5)

Where to watch

Streaming

Amazon Prime Video

YouTube TV

Amazon Prime Video with Ads

Free

Fawesome

With ads

The Roku Channel

Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads

Cineverse

Buy

Amazon Video

Seasons and episodes

Season 1

5 episodes · 2014

John Howe, the famous illustrator of Tolkien's novels and the conceptual artist for Peter Jackson's films, decided to find out more and set off in search of the legends - and the places that gave rise to them.

Episode 1. Tolkien's Worlds

2014-11-30 · 26 min

In New Zealand, John Howe takes us on an exclusive tour of a film set, which has since been destroyed. In the United Kingdom, Professor Leo Carruthers reveals that the writer Tolkien was also a professor, and an expert on European…

Episode 2. The Magical Forest of Brocéliande

2014-12-07 · 26 min

Tolkien took his inspiration from European legends. The first stage of our quest for the sources of the imaginary world takes us to the forest of Brocéliane. Nicolas Mezzalira reveals the legend of Merlin: his birth, romance with the Lady…

Episode 3. In the Footsteps of King Arthur

2014-12-14 · 26 min

Storyteller Nicolas Mezzalira tells him about the birth of King Arthur and then about the origins of the Knights of the Round Table and the Quest for the Holy Grail, and Professor Leo Garruthers highlights the links between these legends…

Episode 4. The Lost Gold of the Rhine

2014-12-21 · 26 min

John Howe travels to Germany, the birthplace of the legend of the Niebelungen or the "Gold of the Rhine". There he meets Canadian writer David Day, the author of several works on Tolkien. Will they discover the origins of the Hobbits in…

Episode 5. The Creatures of the North

2014-12-26 · 26 min

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…

Cast by season

John Howe

Nicolas Mezzalira

Comments

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User reviews

Folio Swami

★ 2.0 / 10

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.

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Keywords

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