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Looking for the Hobbit

Looking for the Hobbit

20145.51 Season5 EpisodesEnded

Overview

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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John Howe

John Howe

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About Looking for the Hobbit

Looking for the Hobbit is a sci-fi & fantasy, documentary series that first aired in 2014 exploring themes of making of, documentary filmmaking. it stars John Howe, Nicolas Mezzalira. 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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