Neil Finn had dwarves on the mind when he wrote “Song of the Lonely Mountain,” a ballad that plays over the end credits of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. When the New Zealand composer met with ...

Last month we learned that Lord of the Rings star Billy Boyd would sing for Middle Earth again by delivering the credits song for the final chapter in Peter Jackson's trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit.

From an artistic point of view, star Mary Pickford famously said, “It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talking instead of the other way around.” Likewise, it would ...