THE HOBBIT TRILOGY
was a box office phenomenon, which of course meant demand for more movies. And lo, a prequel book had already been written, so after some wrangling Peter Jackson returned to make another trilogy set within J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantastical universe. Taking place 60 years before the start of the , gives us Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), content to go about his safe, humdrum existence, until fate and a
