Caption Contest: What is this dwarf from The Hobbit thinking?

By Josh Modell | December 14, 2012 | 4:00pm

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In the interest of science, creativity, and the science of creativity, we're posting a film or TV still every week, and we're going to ask you to come up with a clever caption. Whoever's caption gets the most likes will win some kind of nonsense prize from The A.V. Club office, most likely a Simpsons toy of some sort. The winner of last week's contest, featuring Gerard Butler in Playing For Keeps, was Kajigger Desu, with the very meta: "What a boring picture. At least this will never be used for a caption contest."

Make sure you post your caption as a new comment, not as a reply, so we can sort out the winner. And though we know you'll be tempted to go for the easy, gross joke, remember that our commenting policy isn't out the window here. This week's still comes from a little movie called The Hobbit, which—truth be told—features a lot more dwarves than it does that one hobbit. Anyway, to get you started: