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Looking for the Hobbit

Looking for the Hobbit

Looking for the Hobbit

2014 1 Seasons 5 Episodes ⭐ 5.5 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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Tolkien's Worlds

In New Zealand, John Howe takes us on an exclusive tour of a film set, which has since been destroyed. In the United Kin

EP 2

The Magical Forest of Brocéliande

Tolkien took his inspiration from European legends. The first stage of our quest for the sources of the imaginary world

EP 3

In the Footsteps of King Arthur

Storyteller Nicolas Mezzalira tells him about the birth of King Arthur and then about the origins of the Knights of the

EP 4

The Lost Gold of the Rhine

John Howe travels to Germany, the birthplace of the legend of the Niebelungen or the "Gold of the Rhine". There he meets

EP 5

The Creatures of the North

This final episode takes us to Iceland. Yet it is in Oxford, among students of the Tolkien Society, that the answers to

Popular Cast

John Howe

John Howe

Nicolas Mezzalira

Nicolas Mezzalira