The desolation of smaug looks like the script writers didnt even know there was a book. Smaug, as performed by benedict cumberbatch in the hobbit. The hobbit the desolation of smaug 20 full movie hd. The area surrounding the mountain became known as the desolation of the dragon as there was neither bush nor tree, and only broken and. A reluctant hobbit, bilbo baggins, sets out to the lonely mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home and the. From the publishejourney deeper into the magical world of the hobbit, bilbo baggins, through exclusive interviews with director peter jackson, martin freeman, orlando bloom and principal filmmakers and new cast members.
Dec, 20 peter jackson, though, has raised the bar in moviesplitting, by dividing the shortest novel yet into the most pieces, with his threepart adaptation of j. The desolation of smaug continues the adventure of the title character. Desolation of smaug disambiguation tolkien gateway. The dwarves, along with bilbo baggins and gandalf the grey, continue their quest to reclaim erebor, their homeland, from smaug. The battle of the five armies is flowing gold in opening week. The desolation of the dragon or the desolation of smaug was the wasted, unpeopled lands around erebor and dale, charred and blackened by the burning breath of smaug the dragon. The character of old galion was featured in the hobbit 2003 video game voice dubbing actors. Official movie guide is the 20 authorised companion to peter jacksons the hobbit.
He is briefly seen by bilbo while hes wearing the one ring in the cellars of the elvenkings halls praising the selections of wine. Like last year, this book basically tells you the entire plot of the upcoming the desolation of smaug film, but told in simple language, with many pictures, for children. The lord of the rings is a movie series consisting of three films. From new line cinema, peter jackson and warner bros. When he was 3 he moved to a farm in wales with 2 adults he liked to call his parents. Peter jackson gets to the good stuff in the hobbit. Funny how billy plays the youngest hobbit and yet he is the oldest of the hobbitactors.
We simply cannot take our eyes off of them the spell of the dragon. Tauriel is a fictional character from peter jacksons feature film adaptation of j. If you thought an unexpected journey strayed a bit too far from the book. Tolkiens playful childrens book, says robbie collin 2. A compendium of differences between peter jacksons the hobbit. Dec 15, 20 evangeline lilly has one big problem with the hobbit. Tolkien s famous book the hobbit as well as the detailed appendices in tolkien s the lord of the rings, the prequel trilogy, the desolation of smaug feels more like a piece of. Tolkien s original text, the source material becomes harder to pin down but. Evangeline lilly has one big problem with the hobbit. It also has over 9 hours of behindthescenes footage and interviews, detailing the monumental task of bringing the incredible world of middle earth to the screen.
See more ideas about smaug dragon, dragon and the hobbit. In the hobbit movie, smaug was not even a dragon, he was a wyvern. Ian mckellen, martin freeman, richard armitage, benedict cumberbatch, orlando bloom, evangeline lilly, lee pace, luke evans, stephen fry, dean ogorman, aiden turner, peter jackson, peter jackson, fran walsh, carolynne cunningham, alan horn, ken kamins, toby emmerich, zane weiner, peter. Middleeartdesolation of the dragon or the desolation of smaug the lands around erebor and dale during the days of smaug. Unlike the streamlined adaptations of each of the three lord of the rings novels, the hobbit is expanded beyond the source material with additional characters and story lines. Bard of laketown king of dale via tolkien gateway desolation of smaug, an. Hobbit desolation of smaug jrr tolkien gandalf legolas digital art illustration dragon medieval see tattoo chinese posters middle earth. The fellowship of the ring, the two towers, and the return of the king. The film is the fifth middleearth film adaptation to be released, and the second chronologically in addition to the previous cast from the hobbit. The desolation of smaug as peter jackson ventures further from j.
Jackson leaves tolkien behind peter jacksons middle chapter features elvish girlpower, a love triangle and other madeup stuff. The desolation of smaug is the second film of the hobbit film trilogy. For all things tolkien, lord of the rings, and the hobbit. Im looking for more information about that bizarre hobbit adaptation, and would appreciate it if the uploader could share any information they have on that 3d hobbit animation with me. It has 25 minutes of additional footage added back into the film bringing its total running time up to 186 minutes, as well as multiple documentaries about the making of the film as supplements. Desolation of smaug will contain 25 minutes of new scenes, in contrast with an unexpected journeys minutes. The desolation of smaug runs 161 minutes and is rated pg for extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, and frightening images. Peter jackson, though, has raised the bar in moviesplitting, by dividing the shortest novel yet into the most pieces, with his threepart adaptation of j.
The desolation of smaug i watched the first installment of the hobbit, it was ok, i had some issues with it, but it was enjoyable at least. The desolation of smaug category collecting the precious weta workshop tauriel preorder, mini epic witchking, new ringwraith,and 12 days december 5, 2018 at 1. The desolation of smaug, where he was portrayed by craig hall radio. It was preceded by an unexpected journey in 2012 and followed by the battle of the five armies in 2014. The first part, an unexpected journey, came out last december. The character does not appear in the original book, but was created by peter jackson, philippa boyens and fran walsh as an expansion of material adapted from the book, and first appears in the second and third films in that trilogy, the hobbit. The movie tries hard to change the story wherever it can, reducing fanfavorite chapters to 5 minute scenes and writing new content that. Pictures and is the second installment in the threepart film series based on the novel the hobbit by j. Underhill, and the lord of the rings lcg community. Dale was a city of the northmen, destroyed by the dragon smaug and rebuilt after his demise. Part two of peter jacksons adaptation of the tolkien classic picks up speed, but theres still plenty of bagginess, writes mark.
The desolation of smaug, the second part of peter jacksons the. The desolation of smaug continues the adventure of the title character bilbo baggins martin freeman as he journeys with the wizard gandalf ian mckellan and thirteen dwarves, led by thorin oakenshield richard armitage on an epic quest to reclaim the lost dwarf kingdom of. The desolation of smaug is a pretty terrible name for peter jacksons latest trek into the world and works of j. Despite its questionable plot lines and dialogue, it ticks the boxes as an actionpacked, visually stunning feature. Tolkien gateway was founded by hyarion in january of 2003. National catholic register at the climax of the last of the many sprawling, outrageous action set pieces in the hobbit. There were two other thing that were not just done right, they were done brilliantly.
The desolation of smaug continues the adventure of the title character bilbo baggins as he journeys with the wizard gandalf and. Details of his origin are unknown, but he apparently was considered still young by himself and gandalf when he first appeared in middleearths history in t. Smaug was perhaps one of the dragons that infested the grey mountains. The borders of the desolation harboured a little clinging greenery and life, but its heart was scorched and utterly barren. Smaug just melted the flesh off my bones in virtual reality. Dec, 20 the desolation of smaug is slightly shorter, but still runs a hefty 161 minutes, and takes us about 23 of the way through the story. The dragon makes his full appearance in the second part. Tolkien gateway the one wiki to rule them all fandom.
The second part of peter jacksons extended hobbit trilogy, the desolation of smaug 20 is the latest to flap its wings and breathe fire over the heads of moviegoers. Jan 12, 2014 peter jackson directed three wonderful adaptation of the lord of the rings. The desolation of smaug full hd while rushing down a river inside barrels, bilbo martin freeman and the dwarves together with the elves fight a swarm of angry orcs. This video is principally about the third movie the battle of the five armies its like a video blog. The desolation of smaug represents an improvement over the first installment of peter jacksons threepart adaptation of j. The desolation of smaug extended edition is an extended version of the hobbit. Tolkien gateway is a wiki which also uses mediawiki and gnu fdl, and concentrates on j. He is a powerful and fearsome dragon that invaded the dwarf kingdom of erebor 150 years prior to the events described in the novel. The desolation of smaug is a 20 epic fantasy adventure film directed by peter jackson and produced by wingnut films in collaboration with new line cinema and metrogoldwynmayer. I loved the first hobbit movie and hated, hated, hated the second. How it should have ended s5 e18 how the desolation of smaug should have. As a general rule, i think the former temptation, overfidelity, is the greater hazard. The weakness of desolation of smaug is underscored by the repeated and increasingly heavyhanded attempts by the director to make the audience recall similar scenes from the original lotr movie. Its well done for what it is, but do avoid it until after the film if you dont want to know exactly whats.
I picked up the hobbit for the first time since the desolation of smaug and found something i didnt remember. In fact, his passion for his greatgrandfathers works led royd getting to know the creator of the movies. The responsibility of doing right by tolkien s great dragon was not lost on the desolation of smaug s director. Starring ian mckellen, martin freeman, richard armitage, evangeline lilly and orlando bloom. Okay, according to tolkien gateway that age for legolas is not necessarily true and his age was never stated in any of the books. You keep hearing all this expectation, peter jackson told hero complex in. The desolation of tolkien the american conservative. Thrain confirms gandalfs fears of smaug being subservient to another unseen evil force, later revealed to be sauron.
With ian mckellen, martin freeman, richard armitage, ken stott. For those that want to see the movie for themselves, you should stop here, but i wouldnt recommend it. An unexpected journey, lee pace, orlando bloom, evangeline lilly, luke. Hearing about the wealth of the dwarves of erebor, smaug flew south like a hurricane. Dec 20, 20 the desolation of smaugs overly long action sequences are linked together by only the barest of narrative transitions. A group of thirteen dwarves mounted a quest to take the kingdom back, aided by the wizard gandalf and the hobbit bilbo baggins. Now i am trying to watch the second part, the desolation of smaug, and it is absolutely awful. The desolation of smaug addresses a few issues that seemed mysterious in the first film, and one of these is gandalfs acquisition of the map and key from thorins father, and specifically the fact that in an unexpected journey, thorin didnt seem at all curious about how this happened. The desolation of smaug guides your through the set piece that is the home of beorn, a giant man who occasionally turns into a bear. The desolate lands extended southwards some miles along the banks of the river running from. Official movie guide, a film tiein photobook by jude fisher.
With the desolation of smaug, he has taken roughly five chapters from the middle of tolkien s book and turned them into a relentless adventure tale, teaming with rowdy action, slavering. I refer to the 6th film listed as the desolation of smaug xvid, a bizarre 3d animated adaptation of the hobbit. Peter jackson directed three wonderful adaptation of the lord of the rings. The desolation of smaug movie and book by jrr tolkien. The battle of the five armies, might have been a little shortsighted as now that most readers of and other rabid tolkien fans have seen the film sorry australia friends, paddle over to new. The desolation of smaug is even worse than they let on. Theres nothing like a firebreathing dragon to inject some heat back into a franchise gone lukewarm. In the 1968 the hobbit radio play, old galion was voiced by peter baldwin video games. The desolation of the dragon or the desolation of smaug was the wasted, unpeopled lands around erebor and dale, charred and blackened. Instead, jackson and his screenwriters philippa boyens, fran walsh, and guillermo del toro smother bilbos story by puffing up the narrative through tolkiens 125.
Where exactly the film leaves bilbo, thorin et al, i wont say. Weta workshop was thrilled to return to middleearth once again, contributing design, specialty props and specialty costumes to all three films. The website states that it is the largest tolkien encyclopedia on the net, with over 11,000 articles, over 8,000 images, and over 350,000 edits. The desolation of smaug, the second of three very long movies peter jackson has managed to squeeze out of one fairly short book, bilbo baggins martin freeman finally encounters the mighty reptilian menace of the title. The desolation of smaug is the second of peter jacksons the hobbit film trilogy based on j. Smaug, for those who havent read the book, seen the first movie, or watched the 1977 tv special, is the dragon who has laid waste to the homeland of a tribe of dwarfs, and has been jealously guarding their hoard of. The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece the hobbit, by j. Tolkiens the hobbit, brought to the big screen in an epic trilogy. Sep 03, 2019 the desolation of the dragon or the desolation of smaug was the wasted, unpeopled lands around erebor and dale, charred and blackened by the burning breath of smaug the dragon. Desolation of smaug finally cements the opinion that i had when an unexpected journey was released, namely that if there ever was a composer put on this earth to write and complete a single work, it has to be howard shore, writing his tolkien opus. Though big in the book, the movie portrays the dragon as the size of two 747 airplanes. Jan 31, 2014 how it should have ended s5 e18 how the desolation of smaug should have ended duration. The desolation of smaug a few with some textual basis in tolkien, many without comes a visual conceit so spectacularly gratuitous that it beggars the phrase gilding the lily. With the hobbit series, hes on the verge of tarnishing that legacy.
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