The story picks up with Bilbo, the dwarves, and Gandalf (Ian McKellen) trying to evade the still - pursuing orcs
by seeking shelter with a «skin - changer» named Beorn (Mikael Persbrandt), who changes forms between a giant bear and a slightly less hairy man, and eventually fleeing into a dangerous forest, where the air
causes hallucinations, big
spiders ensnare trespassers, and elves aren't too happy with unexpected company.
And yet
by the time it begins to veer just slightly off course, the show's excellent first few episodes (directed with characteristic verve
by Sherlock's Paul McGuigan) have already built up such a repository of trust that our hero could suddenly run into
Spider - Man, or develop powers of invisibility, without
causing us to blink.
A Partial History of Lost
Causes by Jennifer duBois Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone
by Kat Rosenfield And When She Was Good
by Laura Lippman Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
by Ben Fountain Don't Ever Get Old
by Daniel Friedman Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
by D.T. Max Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain
by Lucia Perillo HHhH
by Laurent Binet Let's Pretend This Never Happened
by Jenny Lawson Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
by Anna Quindlen New Ways to Kill Your Mother
by Colm Tóibín No One is Here Except All of Us
by Ramona Ausubel Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea
by Morgan Callan Rogers Say Nice Things About Detroit
by Scott Lasser Tell the Wolves I'm Home
by Carol Rifka Brunt The End of Your Life Book Club
by Will Schwalbe The Liar, the Bitch and the Wardrobe
by Allie Kingsley The People of Forever Are Not Afraid
by Shani Boianjiu There Is No Dog
by Meg Rosoff This Book Is Full of
Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It
by David Wong This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
by Nathan Englander Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?