The Hobbit is an award-winning high fantasy adventure film series.
The Hobbit . It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim , being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction . The Hobbit is a film series consisting of three high fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson . Although critically considered to be inferior to The Lord of the Rings , it was nominated for various awards and won several , though not as many as its predecessor .