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There and Ba– No, Just There
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/12/2026
“LEGO: The Hobbit” (“LTH”) is one of many, many parody games blending the world of LEGO building toys with popular media. The studio behind this series is Traveler’s Tales, once a stand-alone publisher in its own right after its founding in 1987, but currently a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Games, hence the ability to churn out endless spoofs of movies for which Warner Bros. already owns the IP rights. Released in 2014, shortly before the release of the third and final entry in Peter Jackson’s unnecessarily-bloated “The Hobbit” trilogy of films, “LTH” was supposed to deliver a fully-featured send-up of Jackson’s overly-pretentious adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s debut light novel (plus a butt-load of extraneous material sourced from Tolkien’s short stories). While …
