We've all seen our fair share of fan reaction videos — but we've never seen a reaction to a fan reaction video by the actors themselves, IN COSTUME. Which is exactly what just happened on the set of The Hobbit.

Yesterday you saw the very first trailer for Peter Jackson's second Hobbit movie, The Desolation of Smaug. Today we bring you screencaps of little details you may have missed, closer looks at new characters and Hobbit gifs! Behold a better look at the Lord Smaug, the Impenetrable!

Warner Bros. has released the first poster for Peter Jackson's second Hobbit movie, The Desolation of Smaug. We're definitely getting the desolation, but Smaug himself is still hidden back in the warm glow.

We all know that Middle-Earth is a sausage fest. But what would happen if you flipped all the genders? Could Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings still work as well if you replaced Sean Bean, John Noble and Sean Astin with women? This dream cast proves it would. It's... a diversion.

Peter Jackson just became "that guy" in the geek world. In a recent video blog preview for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Jackson slipped in a little Star Wars humblebrag. At the 4:51 mark, you can plainly see a Jackson specific copy of the next Star Wars movie in his possession. Oh this, this old thing, it's just…

A few weeks back Peter Jackson participated in a live cast before the preview of the The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug footage. And he was joined by some old LOTR friends and super nerd Stephen Colbert, who gleefully grilled Jackson on his elf knowledge. Thankfully Jackson had a pretty solid response.

Now that the first leg of Bilbo's unexpected journey has been released on DVD and Blu-Ray, Peter Jackson is finally ready to show us a short segment from the second Hobbit movie, The Desolation of Smaug. Gandalf and Radagast (birds still firmly nested in the latter's hair) reunite to investigate the mystery of the…

Peter Jackson isn't too busy filming the rest of the third Hobbit movie to think about his next career move — and the LOTR mastermind really wants to direct an episode of the time-traveling soap comedy Doctor Who. He doesn't even want any money for it.

Peter Jackson’s first installment of his Hobbit trilogy arrives on DVD and Blu-ray! But now that you've had some time to process it, how many of you still feel the need to add An Unexpected Journey to your DVD/Blu-ray shelves? Will you wait to see how the rest of the trilogy turns out? Have you already written it off?…

Last we heard, Avatar 2 should have been filming this year — but alas, the mighty James Cameron is still drafting the screenplay. But the director isn't discouraged by the slow going — he says he's "deep" into the script, and points out that everyone should back off, because it's not like he has some book like Lord of…