
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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Air Date: 2014-11-30
In New Zealand, John Howe takes us on an exclusive tour of a film set, which has since been destroyed. In the United ...
Air Date: 2014-12-07
Tolkien took his inspiration from European legends. The first stage of our quest for the sources of the imaginary wor...
Air Date: 2014-12-14
Storyteller Nicolas Mezzalira tells him about the birth of King Arthur and then about the origins of the Knights of t...
Air Date: 2014-12-21
John Howe travels to Germany, the birthplace of the legend of the Niebelungen or the "Gold of the Rhine". There he me...
Air Date: 2014-12-26
This final episode takes us to Iceland. Yet it is in Oxford, among students of the Tolkien Society, that the answers ...
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