10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Hobbit

With The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hitting theaters in the U.S. this Friday, the folks at AllTime10s give us 10 things you didn’t know about J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and the Peter Jackson films based on the book. Did you know there was an unauthorized sequel to Harry Potter sold in China that was comprised largely of passages from The Hobbit with the names of the characters changed? We always wondered if Benedict Cumberbatch could play both Smaug and Lucius Malfoy.