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				Looking for the Hobbit			


			

				
Looking for the Hobbit


				

					5.5											
							IMDb tt6065650
						
										2014										Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Documentary				


				
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.

				

									

						
Cast

						

															

																		John Howe
								

															

																		Nicolas Mezzalira
								

													

					

							

		


					

				

	

		
Episodes							5
					

			


	

				
			

									Tolkien's Worlds
								1
								
			

			

				Tolkien's Worlds
				26m				In New Zealand, John Howe takes us on an exclusive tour of a film set, which has since…			

		
				
			

									The Magical Forest of Brocéliande
								2
								
			

			

				The Magical Forest of Brocéliande
				26m				Tolkien took his inspiration from European legends. The first stage of our quest for the sources of the…			

		
				
			

									In the Footsteps of King Arthur
								3
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				In the Footsteps of King Arthur
				26m				Storyteller Nicolas Mezzalira tells him about the birth of King Arthur and then about the origins of the…			

		
				
			

									The Lost Gold of the Rhine
								4
								
			

			

				The Lost Gold of the Rhine
				26m				John Howe travels to Germany, the birthplace of the legend of the Niebelungen or the "Gold of the…			

		
				
			

									The Creatures of the North
								5
								
			

			

				The Creatures of the North
				26m				This final episode takes us to Iceland. Yet it is in Oxford, among students of the Tolkien Society,…			

		
			



			

		
		

			

	
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