The company is caught in a colossal battle between living mountains.
Peter Jackson’s 2012 film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey marked a historic return to Middle-earth. Adapting the first third of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic 1937 novel, the film introduces a younger Bilbo Baggins, a legendary company of Dwarves, and the beginning of an epic quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.
The treacherous, vast mountain range cutting across Middle-earth.
The world of An Unexpected Journey extends beyond the cinema. This index notes the key franchise and tie-in media.
Shot entirely on location across the North and South Islands of New Zealand, alongside sets at Stone Street Studios in Wellington.
A young Bilbo watching Gandalf's fireworks during a Midsummer's Eve festival.