Because Quote by Luke Evans

Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken…

— Luke Evans

I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

— Martin Freeman

I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.

— Elijah Wood

I think of 'The Hobbit' as more like a boy's own film, like those annuals from the 1930s and 1940s.

— Mark Hadlow

I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's…

— Jack Whitehall

I got called and was told, "We'd like you to do The Hobbit", which was my favorite of all of them when I was…

— Evangeline Lilly

When I was a kid, we would travel to England in our car, from Germany, and listen to storybook tapes and one of them…

— Dominic Monaghan

It's been such a huge part of my life, it's hard for me to separate it out. All I can say is that I…

— Barbara Broccoli

I never wanted to do 'The Hobbit' in the first place.

— Peter Jackson

I've done a couple of castings... I've done an audition for 'The Hobbit.'

— Ronan Keating

When I told my mom I was going to audition for 'The Hobbit,' she said, 'Well, you've always loved Tolkien.' And she was right.

— Richard Armitage

Before I moved to the Isle of Wight, I lived in the suburbs of London and saw 'Fantasia,' and it scared the living daylights…

— Donna Langley