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The survivors of Esgaroth are aided by the Wood Elves and both parties subsequently seek restitution from the Dwarves. Smaug is killed by Bard but his body falls on Lake Town leaving it in utter ruin. It comes promptly at the start of The Battle of the Five Armies and although spectacular, it quickly negates a major plot element. Perhaps the biggest issue being the demise of Smaug.

It can be cogently argued that it somewhat diminishes the impact of some of them. Despite the more economical running time, events occur very rapidly. After the somewhat languid pace of the first movie and the bloated excess of the second, this further change of pace seems somewhat perplexing. Even the extended edition which adds a further 20 minutes to the running time, increasing it to 164 minutes, is mainly driven by one ongoing action sequence which is the titular battle. The Battle of the Five Armies is noticeably shorter than it's two predecessors, mainly because there is insufficient narrative to sustain the proceedings. To celebrate this occasion, I shall post new reviews of the extended edition of all three films, as well as those of The Hobbit trilogy, which were made a decade later. Tolkien’s iconic novel, The Lord of the Rings. From armies crunching together to individual characters settling their differences, closure is satisfyingly noisy.This December marks the 20th anniversary of the release of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first instalment of Peter Jacksons' adaptation of J.R.R. There's barely any dialogue for the last third of the film, just steel on steel, garnished with more elfen parkour than you could shake a wizard's staff at. Yet you can't claim to feel short-changed: we're promised a battle, and battles we get.

Still, compared to the interminable false endings of 'The Return of the King', 'Five Armies' is relatively compact. However, if that were strictly true, Bard's name would be Board - Luke Evans does his best but Aragorn he ain't. Incidentally, his name actually is Lickspittle, proving along with Grima Wormtongue that nominative determinism is alive and well in Middle-earth. The bad guys are a swirly thing in the sky, a couple of interchangeable video game sprites and a painfully unfunny lickspittle who just keeps turning up again and again long after his cowardly schtick wore off precisely one film ago. Yet despite this range of characters, there's a strange lack of compelling villains.

Instal the new version for iphoneThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Ar