The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have captured the imaginations of millions of people. But who knows the legends behind these stories? Last episode. John Howe, illustrator and artistic director of the two Peter Jackson trilogies, and Professor Leo Carruthers take us to Iceland on the trail of dragons and Nordic creatures. The opportunity to discuss the founding texts of the Eddas and Beowulf. John Howe completed his quest in Oxford, where Tolkien was a student and then a professor. From the young members of the Oxford Tolkien Society, an answer finally emerges: what if the Hobbit had been born out of Tolkien's imagination alone? What if he was just an ordinary being, with no mythological past, immersed in a vast world of legends?
