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Stephen Colbert asks ‘Hobbit’ director nerdiest question ever

Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert was (mostly) out of character but fully in geek mode for his appearance in a video preview for “The Desolation of Smaug,” the second part of director Peter Jackson’s adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien novel The Hobbit. Colbert, whose devotion to Tolkien’s works led him…

‘The Hobbit’ was almost filmed in UK, director Peter Jackson reveals

“The Hobbit” director Peter Jackson on Tuesday said the low point making his Tolkien epic was when the production almost moved from his native New Zealand to Britain because of a union dispute. Jackson, who will host the world premiere of the first instalment of his trilogy in Wellington on…