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The Desolation of Smaug premiered in Los Angeles on 2 December 2013, and was released on 12 December in New Zealand and on 13 December in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received mostly positive reviews and grossed $959 million at the worldwide box office, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 2013 .
The Hobbit is a series of three fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson. The films are subtitled An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014). [ 5 ] The films are based on J. R. R. Tolkien 's 1937 novel The Hobbit, but much of the trilogy was inspired by the appendices to his ...
Smaug (/ smaʊɡ / [ T 1 ]) is a dragon and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien 's 1937 novel The Hobbit, his treasure and the mountain he lives in being the goal of the quest. Powerful and fearsome, he invaded the Dwarf kingdom of Erebor 171 years [ 1 ] prior to the events described in the novel.
I See Fire. " I See Fire " is a song by the English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It was commissioned for the soundtrack of the 2013 film The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, where it was played over the closing credits. The Hobbit director, Peter Jackson, asked Sheeran to write a song for the movie after Jackson's daughter, Katie, suggested ...
The setting of the "Misty Mountains" tune became popular. The score has since been performed as a symphonic piece in four movements for orchestra and soloist. The score and its production were the subject of an hour-long documentary film created for the behind-the-scenes features of The Desolation of Smaug.
Girion, Lord of Dale until it was destroyed by Smaug; his wife and child escaped. [T 13] (mentioned only) The Master of Lake-town, [T 15] a grasping politician who met his end starving in the wilderness with the wealth he plundered from his own people after the destruction of Lake-town. [T 2] He is not named explicitly but had the nickname ...
However, his father appears in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as an assassin hired by Azog to neutralise Thorin at the Prancing Pony. He is portrayed by Dallas Barnett. [3] A Squint-Eyed Southerner appears alongside Bill Ferny at the Prancing Pony in the prologue of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, portrayed by New Zealand actor Matt ...
In Mad magazine's parody of The Desolation of Smaug, writer Desmond Devlin emphasized the similarity of the setting in which actress Evangeline Lilly's character was placed with that of her character on Lost, with her statement, "I can't believe I'm back in another weird forest, fighting random threats and making random alliances on a vague and ...