So here we are, at the end of all things, and what a cracker of a way to end one of the greatest movie saga’s ever created.

Tens of thousands of New Zealanders turned out to watch their favourite Hobbit actors walk the red carpet at the film trilogy's home town premiere.

Amid disputes over where 'The Hobbit' movies will be shot, Peter Jackson and the executives behind the films announced the cast for the anticipated two-picture tale.

FURTHER evidence has emerged that the Indonesian “Hobbit” whose remains were found in 2003 was a previously unknown species of human.