The dark, dreary, and dangerous forest of Mirkwood and its enigmatic leader, Thranduil the Elvenking (Lee Pace), play a pivotal role in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit book and a significantly larger ...

There were a few characters in The Hobbit movie that weren't in the book ... This, in turn, made the somewhat fractured ...

There's a scene about an hour into "The Hobbit ... by the Elvenking Thranduil (Lee Pace). Bilbo sets the dwarf clan free so they can continue on their three-movie journey to reclaim the Lonely ...

Although the first film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, features Mirkwood the most as a location, all three movies expand upon Thranduil's flawed leadership where his region of Middle-earth is ...