Gandalf's first staff change occurs because of his confrontation with the presence of Sauron at Dol Guldur in The Desolation of Smaug. The "Opening Flower" staff is destroyed during this ...

The events of The Lord of the Rings transpired quite a long time after The Hobbit, and Gandalf was busy between the two trilogies. However, fans don't necessarily understand what he got up to. Peter ...

Although fans were initially thrilled to find out what happened when Gandalf and the White Council went to take care of business in Dol Guldur, it wasn’t received as warmly. The film trilogy was ...

We don't remember this scene of Gandalf checking out Dol Guldur in the film. Warner Bros. / YouTube screencap Did director Peter Jackson give glimpses of the next "Hobbit" film already?

(Gandalf had found Thráin near death at Dol Guldur.) “We did try it at the front of this movie, and then we moved it,” she said. Does that mean we’ll see that moment in a flashback or ...

But things began to get downright hazardous when Sauron rebuilt his power at Dol Guldur. Gandalf had a very narrow escape from Sauron’s dungeons … this probably awoke in him the realization of ...

Right before entering Mirkwood, Gandalf went to seek information for himself. At first he took Radagast with him, but sent him away before entering the haunted fortress that was Dol Guldur. On his ...

The 5 That Worked 5. Gandalf's Journey To Dol Guldur It's one of the biggest changes that Peter Jackson made with the overall narrative of the Hobbit films, and one that had to be made for the ...

What’s the best way to sum up the Battle of Dol Guldur? Middle-earth’s six most powerful good magic users (Gandalf, Radagast, Saruman, Galadriel, Elrond and Cirdan the Shipwright) suit up to ...

The app was developed to market the latest Hobbit movie, The Desolation of Smaug, which will be screened from 13 December in theatres countrywide. Although the project is still in the making, you can ...

Say hello to Dol Guldur, the fortress that served as Sauron's home back in his necromancer days in The Hobbit. It's pretty evil looking, yeah? it's also a massive vertical dungeon that -- and we ...