Picking up immediately where The Desolation of Smaug left off, the film opens with the dragon Smaug laying waste to Lake-town. Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans), a descendant of Girion, uses the last black arrow to slay the dragon, but the town is destroyed, forcing its survivors to seek refuge in the ruins of Dale.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is the epic conclusion to Peter Jackson’s three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel The Hobbit . Released in 2014, the film bridges the gap between the lighter tone of the earlier hobbit’s journey and the darker, war-torn world of The Lord of the Rings . With a runtime of 144 minutes (extended edition: 164 minutes), it delivers non-stop action, emotional payoffs, and the inevitable descent into greed and heroism. el hobbit 3