When last we left Peter Jackson's three-part cinematic adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Smaug was swooping down upon the burgh of Laketown with desolation on his dragony mind.
Smaug the mighty. Smaug the fire-bringer. Smaug the invincible.
Or so he thinks.
As the winged wyrm torches the tinderbox town, the man known as Bard nocks arrows to fell him. Smaug mocks. Smaug laughs. And Smaug dies. Bard's last projectile pierces the lone point of vulnerability in the dragon's otherwise impenetrable hide, slaying the hated and hateful beast.
It should be a time of celebration. Of emancipation. But devastation is all that remains in the wake of the firedrake's conflagration. So the now-homeless denizens of Laketown turn their eyes toward their only nearby refuge: the crumbling walls of Dale near the gates of Erebor, the fabled mountain redoubt of the dwarves lately devoid of the scaly interloper that had slumbered there for six decades.
The fallout of Smaug's downfall is not lost on the band of dwarves who plotted his eviction. Led by Thorin, they watch Laketown smolder from Erebor's heights. With Bilbo's burglaring help, they'd achieved their quest against long odds, vanquishing the dragon and reclaiming their ancestral fortress.
It should be a time of celebration. Of emancipation. But more devastation awaits.
That's because Erebor is home to the most fabulous treasure in Middle-earth … treasure all the races believe they're entitled to. The dwarves. The elves. The bedraggled refugees of Laketown, whom Thorin had promised recompense if they helped.
But that was before Thorin saw it.
All. That. Gold. In all of its blazing, beautiful, corrupting, corroding luster. Having seized Erebor's inestimable fortune, and having been seized by its seductive allure, Thorin has no intention of sharing any of it.
"By my life," he vows, echoing Smaug's own declaration before he perished, "I will not part with a single coin, not one piece of it."
Even if it means hardening his heart to the downtrodden survivors of Laketown. Even if it means going to war with an elven army led by their king, Thranduil. Even if it means spurning the friendship and counsel of Gandalf, Bilbo and all the other members of his company. Even if it means abandoning an army of dwarves (led by Thorin's cousin Dáin) that arrives at Erebor hours after Thranduil's bow-bearing elven battalion does.
"Will you have peace or war?" Bard asks Thorin on the threshold of a cataclysmic conflict.
"I will have war," the dwarven leader spits.
And that's when the orcs and the goblins and the wargs and the trolls and all manner of other misbegotten adversaries join the fray. Led by Thorin's lifelong nemesis, Azog, these creatures have still another claim in mind: the would-be dwarf king's head.
GENRE
Drama, Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
CAST
Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins; Ian McKellen as Gandalf; Richard Armitage as Thorin; Ken Stott as Balin; Graham McTavish as Dwalin; William Kircher as Bifur; James Nesbitt as Bofur; Stephen Hunter as Bombur; Dean O'Gorman as Fili; Aidan Turner as Kili; John Callen as Oin; Peter Hambleton as Gloin; Jed Brophy as Nori; Mark Hadlow as Dori; Adam Brown Ori; Orlando Bloom as Legolas; Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel; Cate Blanchett as Galadriel; Christopher Lee as Saruman; Sylvester McCoy as Radagast; Lee Pace as Thranduil; Luke Evans as Bard; Manu Bennett as Azog; Lawrence Makoare as Bolg; Mikael Persbrandt as Beorn; Benedict Cumberbatch as the voices of Smaug and Necromancer
DIRECTOR
Peter Jackson (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Lovely Bones, King Kong, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
DISTRIBUTOR
Warner Bros.
IN THEATERS
December 17, 2014
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