The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first chapter in Peter Jackson epic trilogy set in Middle-Earth 60 years before J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings saga. Approached by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo Baggins finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield on their quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug.
