Looking for the Hobbit

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.

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Created By	Yannis Metzinger Alexis Metzinger
Status	Ended
Original Name	À la recherche du Hobbit
First Air Date	November 30, 2014
Last Air Date	December 26, 2014
Seasons	1
Episodes	5
Episode Runtime	0min
Language	French
Original Language	French
Production Countries	France
Production Companies	ARTE GEIE WDR Cerigo Films
Networks	ARTE ARTE

S01E05

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 the long search for the Hobbits lie. What if the Hobbits were born entirely from Tolkien's imagination? And what if they were purely and simply a projection of human beings, with their weaknesses and faults - and their capacity to change the world?

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