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All This Business About Beorn

Image Credit: The Brothers Hildebrandt Beorn the skin-changer in  The Hobbit  is one of those characters from Tolkien about whom you can't help but wonder.  He has animal servants and speaks to them in a mysterious language that is not English, he vacates his great wooden house in the night only to be replaced by fearsome bear noises outside, and - oh, yes! - there's the fact that he can change his form into a bear's. As any fan of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has known for some time, the appearance of Beorn is coming up in the next installment of the three-part epic - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.   Just a few days ago,  TheOneRing.net  announced that they had discovered a very low resolution image - but a legitimate image, nonetheless - of Beorn himself on the back of a 2014   Hobbit calendar.  The picture has made its rounds on the Internet, and although I am not permitted to show it here, it can still be found if one makes a Google