The first in a trilogy of films based on JRR Tolkien's enduring masterpiece El Hobbit , El Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who along with the wizard Gandalf and 13 dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, is swept away. towards an epic adventure to recover the dwarf kingdom of Erebor from the terrible dragon Smaug. Their journey takes them into the forest, crossing dangerous lands, where they will encounter goblins, orcs and wargs, as well as a mysterious and sinister figure called the Necromancer. Along the way, the simple Bilbo Baggins not only discovers, and is surprised, how cunning and brave he can be, but he gains possession of a 'treasure', a ring linked to the fate of Middle-earth until a point that not even he himself can imagine.
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