Published Jun 12, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
Makuochi Echebiri is a News Writer for Collider. He has been interested in creative writing from as far back as high school, and he would consume pretty much anything that’s film or TV. However, his truest love lies in the presence of historical epics and thrillers.
Lured by the brilliance of Middle Earth from an early age both in print and on screen, his palate has since expanded to other realms including Westeros, Kattegat among others. He also possesses a great appetite for the stories that emanate from the vastness of space. Even though he is no Avenger.
Obsessed with storytelling and having works of his own that have yet to make it to print, he is content to use that ability to communicate to as many as are reachable. In his spare time, he looks out for avenues where he can aid people aside from his plans to reign over this earthly realm. Yes…you heard that first here.
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When ranking the best movie trilogies of all time, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson in the early 2000s stands out without question. A near celestial score, mythical and enthralling landscapes, with an equally absorbing storyline, that trilogy simply had everything. It was both a commercial and critical success, as evidenced by its outright domination in the awards category. Jackson’s trilogy won 475 awards out of 800 nominations, with a combined 17 Academy Awards out of 30 nominations, sealing the film’s place as the most awarded film series in cinematic history.
So, it wasn’t surprising when Jackson decided, about a decade later, to roll back the times with a new trilogy: The Hobbit. Shifting its focus to yet another Baggins, with Martin Freeman as the adventurous Bilbo Baggins, the trilogy launched in 2012 with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The film gave fans of the first set of films a chance to grasp some of the backstory behind the friendship shared by Gandalf and Bilbo in the original trilogy. The Hobbit trilogy chronicles the tale of titular protagonist Bilbo Baggins and a company of Dwarves on a quest to reclaim their ancestral home from the grip of the fearsome dragon, Smaug. Many races shaped the future of Middle-earth, but the hobbits did so arguably more significantly than most.
Ultimately, when it was all said and done, The Hobbit trilogy was unable to capture the magic of its predecessor, as it arguably shouldn’t have been a trilogy in the first place. However, redemption seems to have found Bilbo and his friends. According to data obtained by FlixPatrol, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has become something of a streaming hit on Netflix. So far, in June 2026, the feature film has cracked the Top 10 of several countries, including Brazil, Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, among others. With a Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score of 64%, An Unexpected Journey isn’t the worst watch there is. Its greatest flaw lay in its pacing, as highlighted in critics’ consensus, which reads: “Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth is an earnest, visually resplendent trip, but the film’s deliberate pace robs the material of some of its majesty.”
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Since The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and the other films in that trilogy, the Lord of the Rings franchise has seen new additions. So vast and rich is J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium that an animated feature and a full-blown television series in Prime Video’s Rings of Power have been added to the franchise. But there is more to come as a Stephen Colbert-penned Lord of the Rings: The Shadow of the Past (which is set in The Fourth Age with Sam’s daughter Elanor) is in development. However, the most eagerly anticipated project within this particular space remains The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, which has **Andy Serkis **directing, ahead of its premiere on December 17, 2027. Among the stars now attached to the project, Lee Pace, who plays King Thranduil of the Woodland Realm, in The Hobbit trilogy, will be returning to the role.
*The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey *is currently streaming on Netflix. Stay tuned to Collider for updates.
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