The remaining six living The Hobbit dwarves (Bifur, Bofur, Nori, Dori, Bombur and Dwalin) are mostly unaccounted for by Tolkien, but fans can speculate on their movements during The Lord of the Rings.

In the second, the friendly Fraggle Wembley gets cuddly with a dwarf named Dwalin. Though Tolkien’s dwarves may seem intimidating, they’re quite friendly once you get past their brusque exteriors.

Gandalf also convinced a hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins to tag along as the group's burglar. By the very nature of such a large cast, not every Dwarf in Thorin's Company had much time in the ...

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 ...

All 13 dwarves (and 1 hobbit) lined up for a press conference for Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. So here they are for the first time, and on video, together: the ...

Obendorf and colleagues say the characteristic features of such 'dwarf cretins' appear to be present in the hobbit fossil, which has been named a new species Homo floresiensis.

If you can't keep all of the new "Hobbit" dwarves' names straight, you're not alone. With more than a month until film's theatrical debut, MGM and Warner Bros. released 17 new character posters ...