the hobbit was published september 21 1937
warner brothers developed two freetoplay online strategy games in collaboration with kabam for promoting the film series which were the hobbit kingdoms of middle earth released for android and ios on 8 november 2012 and the hobbit armies of the third age playable online on web browsers and as a facebook app that was released on 21 march 2013
 tolkien described the snergs as a race of people only slightly taller than the average table but broad in the shoulders and who have the strength of ten men