Who is Bilbo? What is his character like? Guillermo Del Toro has some interesting thoughts on his ideas about Bilbo:
Bilbo is a good-hearted man, and the honesty of Bilbo is in direct contrast to the greed of Smaug, which looms large in the entire narrative, but also in the newly acquired greed and pride of [...]

Guillermo Del Toro speaks about Smaug, approaching actors, and other details about the Hobbit in an interview with MTV.
MTV: Do you have the picture yet of the Smaug you want to create?
Del Toro: I discussed the Smaug appearance with great detail with [Tolkien illustrators] John Howe and Alan Lee, and there’s some illustrations that John did [...]

In an interview with MTV News, Guillermo Del Toro refused to fractionalize Tolkiens book into component parts.
“We don’t even call it the bridge movie, we just call it ‘The Movie.’ And this is great. When we found what reverberated, and we found it in one of our virtual meetings – we understood. It’s a movie.”
It [...]

Guillermo del Toro recently appeared at the Director’s Guild of America in midtown Manhattan as part of The New Yorker Festival series of talks. During the conversation with New Yorker staff writer Daniel Zalewski, del Toro discussed where exactly his mind was in Middle Earth.
“I find you have to discipline yourself to write in the [...]

Guillermo del Toro recently spoke about The Hobbit in The Directors Guild of America. Also he talked about the dragon Smaug.
“All my life I’ve been fascinated by dragons. I was born under the Chinese sign of The Dragon. All my life I’m collecting dragons. It’s such a powerful symbol, and in the context of ‘The [...]