Sentences with phrase «as hobbit»

If games are more your thing, the collection includes classic adventure games such as The Hobbit, a 1982 game for then - popular home computers such as the Commodore 64, and Akalabeth: World of Doom, a 1980 role - playing game for the Apple II; chess games such as Chess by Peter Jennings, considered one of the first commercial game programs ever, and the Sargon Chess program, first released in 1978 at a price of $ 895; and multiple versions of Pac - Man.

Steamroller Studios boasts an impressive, yet small team of people, who have worked on movies such as The Hobbit, Avatar, The Avengers, How To Train Your Dragon 2, and games such as Bioshock, and Left 4 Dead.

If you're now as hungry as a Hobbit, fuel up at the steaming stalls lining Friday's Wellington Night Market, near Cuba Street — where you're also never far from a fortifying flat white coffee.

Prime Reading has a vast selection of Kindle books, such as The Hobbit, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Man In the High Castle, The Millionaire Next Door, Half Way Home and When I'm Gone, but also comics such as The Complete Peanuts Vol.

Like all Cayennes, it's as well insulated as a hobbit hole and just as snug.

As it's only subtly different from the one that was previously released, folks are referring to this one as The Hobbit 1.1.

In last year's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, there was a lot of preparatory business to get out of the way, as the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), was recruited by the wizard, Gandalf (Ian McKellan), to join 13 dwarfs on a quest to reinstate their leader, Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage).

MARTIN FREEMAN as the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the fantasy adventure «THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY,» a production of New Line Cinema and Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer Pictures (MGM), released by Warner Bros..

We don't get stop as the Hobbit's though, we get chapters on the Wizards, Dwarves, Trolls, Elves, Stone Giants, Goblins, Orcs, Beasts and of course we can't forget Gollum.

Freeman is great as the hobbit thrown into the deep end of Middle Earth's dangers.

The cast includes «Sherlock» actor Martin Freeman as hobbit Bilbo Baggins as well as Ian McKellan of the TV show «Vicious» as the wizard Gandalf, and Richard Armitage of «Robin Hood» as dwarf leader Thorin.

It's too bad, though, that back in 2012 something as expectation - logged as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was the movie Hollywood decided to use for our collective guinea pigging moment, microwaving a beloved world like a bag of robot popcorn and crisping it up to within a millimeter of insanity, exploding every visual element into tiny, exquisitely detailed parts, forcing you to look, LOOK, LOOK!!!

Homo floresiensis, popularly known as a hobbit, is an extinct, miniature human species that might be much, much older than previously thought.

But that proposed scenario has some parallels to Indonesia's Homo floresiensis, better known as the hobbit.

In particular, the jawbone, which the team says belonged to an adult — as the wisdom tooth it once housed had fully erupted — is just as small as its hobbit equivalents.

All in the wrist: Hobbit was more ape than human The wrist bones of the three - foot -(one - meter --RRB- tall humanoid specimen known affectionately as the Hobbit bolster the view that it was a species unto itself.

Better known as the hobbit, H. floresiensis was a diminutive hominid that lived roughly 500 kilometers south of Sulawesi on the island of Flores at around the same time the Sulawesi tools were made.

My husband dressed up as Treebeard (from Lord of the Rings) and Fuller, our son, was in the camouflaged baby Bjorn dressed as a Hobbit.

As honest and pure as a Hobbit's heart, this zinfandel is crafted in honor of the most adventurous one of them all: Frodo Baggins, keeper of the Ring.

And just as Hobbits are sturdier than they appear, so are the old vines that produced this red, which have endured for decades to survive - and flourish - against all odds.

Obviously, you don't need to move at the same speed as the hobbits (18 miles in the first day is no joke!

Webquests Whether you think of your learners as Hobbits to send on an adventure or as James Bond to go on a covert mission, webquests can add an element of excitement to your lesson.

Not exact matches

You can take a cue from the search engine giant and use a large sofa, or try smaller «hobbit hole» spaces such as enclaves with padded benches, acoustic couches, a long communal table for lunch or telecommuters, the modern version of old - school desk attachments to rolling chairs, and general seating that helps employees feel comfier.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

HotAirAce, you posted «Given that The Babble is a work of (bad) fiction, learning the history of any of the characters in it would be about as useful as learning the detailed history of the Hobbits.

Given that The Babble is a work of (bad) fiction, learning the history of any of the characters in it would be about as useful as learning the detailed history of the Hobbits.

As the older man — he died in 1936, just as Tolkien's popularity would begin to burgeon with the publication of The Hobbit in 1937 — Chesterton seems even more of an antediluviaAs the older man — he died in 1936, just as Tolkien's popularity would begin to burgeon with the publication of The Hobbit in 1937 — Chesterton seems even more of an antediluviaas Tolkien's popularity would begin to burgeon with the publication of The Hobbit in 1937 — Chesterton seems even more of an antediluvian.

This is never going to be a book that students of literature esteem as highly as others published in the same year, such as Auden and MacNeice's Letters from Iceland or Tolkien's The Hobbit.

We re-discover the meaning of heroism and friendship as we see the two hobbits clawing their way up Mount Doom; we see again the endless evil of greed and egotism in Gollum, stunted and ingrown out of moral shape by years of lust for the ring; we recognize again the essential anguish of seeing beautiful and frail things - innocence, early love, children — passing away as we read of the Lady Galadriel and the elves making the inevitable journey to the West.

Perhaps they also believe in hobbits, goblins, fairies and dragons as well?

(His illustrations of The Hobbit are notable in this respect as well.)

New York (CNN)- A new Broadway musical looks at religious faith and doubt with a healthy dose of imagination: the audience meets Jesus, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints founder Joseph Smith, Satan, and an African warlord as well as Darth Vader, Yoda and two hobbits.

His panic The Hobbit, the intelligent apes from the Planet of the Apes, and even God are all creatures created from people's imaginations, as far as we can tell.

But before any of this happens in The Hobbit, as the company gets closer and closer to the mountains, Gandalf suspects that «something unexpected might happen.»

But the scenario is almost exactly the same both times: The travelers head up the mountain trail and encounter a fierce storm that forces them to either take shelter (as in The Hobbit) or turn back (as in The Fellowship of the Ring).

«In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...» Famously Tolkien was marking papers one summer and there was a blank one on which he wrote this line — the rest of the story came about as an effort to discover what hobbits were.

It is undeniably true that children are drawn to the hobbits because of their diminutive size, but it is truer still that we keep reading Tolkien's trilogy as adults because the hobbits» struggles are our own.

The film's chief fault lies in the decision to depict the four chief hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin — as raw youths rather than the middle - aged creatures whom Tolkien invented.

When we're in the midst of bad weather, I tend to turn to baked dishes for dinner as they're warm and comforting — and they warm up the house whilst they're cooking Kristy @ Southern In Law recently posted... Travel: The Ultimate Hobbit Day in New Zealand

I've called my take on this recipe «Embas Bread», as in stark contrast to regular wheat bread, this keeps you going for hours, much in the same way that Lembas Bread kept those wee Hobbits trekking for days.

That they went from being upset with the UFC and trying as hard as possible to get a fight with a hobbit and then trolled Edgar after for not accepting, but when it comes to Khabib they are all «aw shucks, Dana has a good point, maybe next time»

As we all must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish, and they never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

But as a report by Sky Sports shows, the Arsenal chief executive hit back and rubbished the reports that claimed the club were sitting on some huge pile of cash like Smaug the dragon in the series of films The Hobbit.

Because as sexy and chic as sex in front of a fireplace may seem in books or movies, in real life the floor is hard, cold wood, and if you're in my house it's also coated in cracker crumbs, because even though you vacuumed yesterday you have twins who eat 11 meals a day like hobbits.

New fossils shed light on the origin of the unusual human relative known as «the hobbit».

After researchers discovered H. floresiensis, which they nicknamed the hobbit, in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, they concluded that its skeletal remains were as young as 11,000 years old.

The first hobbit fossil, known as LB1, was found in 2003 beneath about 6 metres of dirt and rock.

They found that the youngest age for Homo floresiensis, dubbed the «Hobbit», is around 50,000 years ago not between 13,000 and 11,000 years as initially claimed.

Hobbit proponents, however, think that the evidence for the hobbit as a separate human species is stronger thanHobbit proponents, however, think that the evidence for the hobbit as a separate human species is stronger thanhobbit as a separate human species is stronger than ever.

Even hobbit deniers, such as Robert B. Eckhardt of Pennsylvania State University, concede that «it's easy to rule out cretinism and MOPD II.»