The Desolation of Smaug made major changes to Tolkien’s original story. New characters, altered events, and expanded scenes ...

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on an epic ...

One of the most impressive elements in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was the massive, titular dragon himself. A new video gives an up-close look at the beast and details the labor intensive ...

"Tell me, thief, how do you choose to die?" Those words are just as chilling when they're coming from a Lego version of Smaug the Tyrannical, as featured in our exclusive cutscene from "Lego The ...

The cast and crew of The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug are shrunk down Alice-in-Wonderland-style in this comedic behind the scenes look at the Beorn's House set. Beorn is a man, who's also sometimes a ...

While An Unexpected Journey had plenty of bucolic charm, it did, for a Middle-earth film, feel oddly inconsequential. The Desolation Of Smaug remedies that. Moody, urgent and, for want of a better ...