This December brings the big final clash in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, The Battle Of The Five Armies. To remind us of that fact, and to emphasise that the film is the “defining chapter" (What exactly does that mean?), a new set of posters is being unleashed this week.
The film finds the Dwarves, led by Richard Armitage’s Thorin Oakenshield, reclaiming the vast wealth of their mountain home of Erebor, but all is definitely not going to go smoothly now. In taking back the mountain, they unleashed the terrifying dragon Smaug, who has flown off to attack the humans of the nearby Lake-town after realising that they helped the dwarves.
That’s not all that Bilbo (Martin Freeman) and his comrades have to worry about, because an ancient enemy has returned in force to Middle-earth. The clash with Smaug is just part of the battle, with the Necromancer (AKA Sauron) unleashing his Orc hordes against our heroes. Bilbo and the rest must fight for their lives as five great armies go to war. Who will survive, and what will be left of them?
With Ian McKellen, Benedict Cumberbatch, Orlando Bloom, Lee Pace, Evangeline Lilly, Aidan Turner, James Nesbitt and many more among the cast, **The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies **lands on December 12.