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[NeoGiff]

The official trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is finally here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVAgTiBrrDA

Previous teaser trailer featuring "The Edge of Night" by Billy Boyd.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=863506&highlight=hobbit+trailer

Screencaps:

Items of note in the trailer:

Spoiler

Lake-town aflame
Character reactions to the descent of Thorin Oakenshield (Bilbo, Bard, Thranduil, Dwalin, Kili)
The White Council confronting Sauron and the Nine in Dol Guldur
Legolas and Tauriel discovering the war-bred giant bats at Mt. Gundabad
The armies of Good and Evil amassing
Thorin vs. Azog
Legolas vs. Bolg

Outside of TV spots, it’s quite likely that this will be the final trailer for Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga. It has been an amazing journey, and hopefully this final installment will deliver. For now, we have one question to answer: how shall this day end?

Don’t forget to spoiler-tag plot developments and speculation.

 

[Bloodrage]

Already looks infinitely more entertaining than the entire LOTR trilogy, just like the previous Hobbit films.

 

[Solo]

Already looks infinitely more entertaining than the entire LOTR trilogy, just like the previous Hobbit films.

Congrats on having an opinion worthy of being thrown into Mount Doom.

 

[Kud Dukan]

Spoiler

The White Council confronting Sauron and the Nine in Dol Guldur

.

The whole trailer was fantastic, but I loved that bit in particular. Can't wait to see that play out.

 

[Mighty Chin]

Nice

 

[Yoshichan]

Dantes ?

 

[brandonh83]

Terrific.

 

[inky]

Damn. Worst first reply ever.

 

[Higgins113]

"Leave Sauron to me"

Jesus Christ, Jackson must be rolling in his grave.

 

[ratcliffja]

Already looks infinitely more entertaining than the entire LOTR trilogy, just like the previous Hobbit films.

I wouldn't say infinitely more entertaining, but they definitely hold their own against the LotR trilogy.

 

[Darklord]

I'm still sad the hobbit movies look so "fake". The glowly look and the CGI orcs make it all look so cheap and shitty compared to LOTR. I'll still see it though, it looks fun.

 

[strafer]

I hope Tauriel doesn't die.

 

[NeoGiff]

"Leave Sauron to me"

Jesus Christ, Jackson must be rolling in his grave.

Yeah, what's this Tolkien guy up to?

 

[Raptor]

"LEAVE SAURON TO ME"

jesus christ, chills all over my fucking body!

Ohman, oh god, oh man!!

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Is this finally the end of these?

 

[thesoapster]

Looks gud

 

[SmugAgentCoulson]

FINALLY next gen has arrived. Though I may opt to get this on PC as it's going to be in 4K.

 

[Mengy]

Looks good. Day one for me.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Youtube has 60fps support now. We should totally get a 48fps trailer to test it out.

 

[RS4-]

Hopefully it's better than the previous shit fest Hobbit films.

 

[bananafactory]

Damn. Worst first reply ever.

That first reply is so foul I'm surprised it was not written in the black speech of Mordor...

 

[TheKaeptain]

Meh.

 

[Won]

Man, Smaug got so robbed in this adaption.

Looks like Lee Pace wants to save the movie all by himself. He might even be able to do it.

 

[BruceLeeRoy]

Congrats on having an opinion worthy of being thrown into Mount Doom.

Hahaha.
Thanks for that Solo

 

[Real Hero]

Already looks infinitely more entertaining than the entire LOTR trilogy, just like the previous Hobbit films.

If by entertaining you mean shit, I agree.

 

[Japarican]

I didn't know it was coming out next month

 

[Borgnine]

Why so serious?

 

[Cross-Section]

Anyone know how long it may take for Apple Trailers to update with this new one? Can't stand that Youtube compression.

 

[brandonh83]

Battle of the Five Armies is such a shit title. Should have been called The Silmarillion.

 

[Yoshichan]

Just watched it.

So where the fuck is Smaug?

 

[inky]

Why so serious?

because WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not feeling it myself, but I'm still going to watch it.

 

[Moppeh]

Seems cool, but the battle itself is going to outweigh killing Smaug so much, it is kind of ridiculous. I still don't understand why they left Smaug's death to this final film when there is this epic battle that is going to happen right after.

Why didn't they just cut out those shitty love triangle scenes and murder the fuck out of Smaug? You know, so there was an actual climax in the second film. Did we even get any Smaug footage in that trailer? He's probably going to die 10 minutes in and movie-goers are going to forget about him by the end of the movie. I can understand a lot of the decisions Jackson has made with this film (some of these were bad, others were good), but I will never understand the point of having that idiotic cliffhanger at the end. It made that shitty second movie worst, and that decision could completely fuck up the pacing of the third film. I just don't get it.

Not to mention this all devalues Smaug as a villain. What a friggin' shame.

 

[uncleniccius]

IT LOOKS SO GOOD.
Hype!

 

[Orbis Tabula]

Even though I didn't enjoy the Hobbit movies as much as the LOTR ones, I'm looking forward to this. Battles are fun.

 

[rekameohs]

"Leave Sauron to me"

Jesus Christ, Jackson must be rolling in his grave.

I know he's fat, but c'mon bro

 

[Divvy]

Where's Smaug?

 

[Jigorath]

Battle of the Five Armies is such a shit title. Should have been called The Silmarillion.

They don't have the rights.

 

[Quick]

Looks, good. I'm looking forward to this.

I hope Tauriel doesn't die.

Thranduil hating on the interracial coupling.

Spoiler

Yeah, I hope we didn't just see him kill her in the trailer.

 

[Anton Sugar]

I hope Tauriel doesn't die.

Am I crazy, or does blood spatter on Thranduil's face at 1:50 after he

Spoiler

attacks(?) her? Slices her throat? What is going on there?

EDIT: Beaten.

 

[Kinyou]

It's funny how smaug seems to be a total non-issue despite the two movies before setting him up.

 

[Discotheque]

Should be fun, that last screencap looks really nice. The cgi in this series is overkill but that looks really stylized in a good way

 

[Plasmid]

Looks great. Looks very gritty and dark. Do we have a runtime yet??

 

[Borgnine]

Honestly this shit is so far from The Hobbit I don't even care, I'm mostly looking forward to the added in White Council/Sauron stuff.

 

[Darth Pinche]

I'm sad to say this trailer does nothing for me, except remind me that the dwarves are just a bunch of assholes.

Plus the scenes with synchronized movements by the elves and trolls, just screams "hey look CGI!" I lost the immersive feel of LOTR.

 

[……forgetit]

Amazing how they don't even show smaug after the ending of the last movie, also I want to point out that this whole movie is just the last 72 pages of the book.

 

[The English Conquistador]

It looks wonderful...WONDERFUL!

 

[Nokagi]

Very much looking forward to seeing this.

 

[Matt_]

What what what
Saruman going head to head with Sauron? spoilers

Spoiler

I read somewhere (probably here) that it was galadriel that saved Gandalf and her powers completely demolished the castle, is that not true? Was really looking forward to her kicking ass

Very hyped for this final installment. I do find it a little odd that they aren't playing up Smaug's attack more considering the first two films were leading up to it. I get that the battle is bigger but marketing wise I find it quite surprising

 

[TheKaeptain]

Why so serious?

Because Jackson never actually read the Hobbit. Just a wiki outline.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

smaug getting whacked in act 1 confirmed. why the hell didn't they just finish that part of the story in the last movie?

looks cool though.