麻豆社

As far as Hollywood blockbusters go, there aren't many bigger franchises at the moment than Peter Jackson's trilogy the Hobbit.

And for Leicestershire actor Richard Armitage, the series represents a big role that came in small proportions.

Richard plays a Dwarf prince in the Hollywood blockbuster and he's been telling our arts reporter Geeta Pendse what it was like when he first read the Hobbit as a child and what impression it made on him at the time.