The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a film, the second part of The Hobbit film series. It was released on December 13, 2013.
Plot
On a rainy evening in Bree, Thorin Oakenshield discreetly arrives at the Prancing Pony Inn, where he encounters Gandalf the Grey, who warns Thorin Oakenshield that someone is trying to have him killed. He persuades Thorin to march upon the Lonely Mountain and obtain the Arkenstone to unite the dwarves of Erebor, and suggests that a stealthy burglar may be needed to steal the jewel back from Smaug.
Twelve months later, Thorin and his company are being pursued by Azog and his orc party down the Carrock following the events of the previous film. Bilbo, who is on a ridge scouting out the surrounding area, witnesses a massive bear stalking them nearby, and returns to inform the group tof the bear's presence. Gandalf expresses familiarity with the beast, and reveals he knows of a dwelling nearby where they can seek shelter. The bear suddenly picks up their scent and gives chase, forcing the company to make a desperate run for the house. Upon their arrival, they are attacked by the bear but manage to repel it by barring the door to the house. Gandalf reveals that it is the home Beorn, a skin-changer who is in fact the bear they have been fleeing from; as a bear, Beorn is violent and unpredictable in nature, but as a man he is more prone to reason, and that he may be able to aid them in their journey. That night, Azog and his warband keep their distance from Beorn's house, unwilling to mount an attack as Beorn is guarding the house in his bear form and would undoutebdly slaughter them all. Suddenly, Bolg appears and informs Azong that he has been summoned to Dol Guldur by the Necromancer. Azog arrives at Don Goldur, where the Necromancer instructs him to abandon his pursuit of the dwarven company to lead the Necromancer's armies. Azog reluctantly obeys, instructing his son Bolg to take over the hunt for the dwarves in his stead.
The next day, Beorn, having transformed back into his human form, discusses the dwarves's quest with the company, expressing doubt that they will reach Mirkwood alive due to the increasing numbers of orcs roaming the lands. He expresses his disdain for dwarves, but admits that he hates orcs far more, having had his kind all but wiped out by the Azog and the orcs of Gundabad for sport. Therefore, he agrees to loan his horses to the company so that they can safely reach Mirkwood, and transforms back into a bear in order to hinder the pursuing orcs. Upon arrival at the forest border, Gandalf discovers Black Speech graffiti imprinted on an old ruin, coinciding with a telepathic message from Galadriel imploring him to investigate the tombs of the Nazgûl at the High Fells of Rhudaur. Without giving any reason for his sudden departure, Gandalf advises the company to follow the Elven path though Mirkwood, and to wait for him before entering the Lonely Mountain. The dwarves make their way into the labyrinthian forest, traveling for days without seeing sunlight or any sign of reaching the other side of the forest, and paranoia begins to set in amongst the group. The dwarves eventually reach a chasm where the path runs off, and begin to succumb to hysteria upon realizing they have lost their way. Bilbo climbs a tree to try and get their bearings, and upon reaching the forest canopy he finds they have nearly reached the other side forest and sees Long Lake in the distance. He excitedly calls down his discovery to his companions, but myseriously receives no reply. Suddenly, Bilbo notices the trees moving off in the distance, and begins climbing down when he realizes his whatever it is is moving towards them. In the process of climbing down, he loses his footing on a web and falls into an even larger web, revealed to have been spun by a massive spider, who promptly attacks and cocoons him.
Bilbo awakens some time later to find that he and the rest of his companions have all been captured and cocooned by several of the giant spiders. Bilbo, with the help of the One Ring, manages to free them from the webs and names his sword Sting. However, while fighting the attacking spiders, Bilbo drops the ring, and he begins to learn of the corruption it has on him after brutally killing a crab-like spider to retrieve it.
The Dwarves are captured by the Wood-elves including Legolas and Tauriel, a captain of the guard. They are to the elf-king Thranduil's kingdom, and are locked up. During their captivity, a romantic subplot develops between Tauriel and Kili.
While the others are imprisoned, Thorin is given audience with Thranduil, but he refuses Thranduil's aid and is imprisoned as well. Under the cloak of the ring, Bilbo helps the Dwarves to escape by using empty wine barrels, which are sent floating down the river. Along the way, they are ambushed by Bolg and his Orc party, while the elves pursue the Dwarves to cease their escape. In the ensuing chaos, Kili is wounded by a Morgul arrow. Legolas and Tauriel are forced to halt their pursuit of the Dwarves in order to end the Orc onslaught. One captive is imprisoned and questioned by Thranduil. When Thranduil learns that "The One" has returned, he decides to seal off his kingdom to protect it from the impending evil. However, Tauriel leaves to save Kili, who she learns has been poisoned by the orc's arrow, and Legolas accompanies her.
Subsequently, the Company meets a man named Bard and bribe him to smuggle them into Esgaroth, the lake town where the descendants of Dale made their home, and where the Master of the Town rules with an iron fist. The group attempt to steal weapons before being captured and in the process learn that Bard is a descendant of Dale's ruler, Girion, who died attempting to kill Smaug with Black Arrows. After Thorin convinces the townfolk and Master that they will share the riches of the recaptured mountain, the adventurers receive a grand send-off. The injured Kili is ordered to remain behind while Oin, Fili, and Bofur remain to tend him in Bard's house.
As the events of Thorin's company occurs, Gandalf reaches the remote tomb of the Nazgûl and found that they have been revived. He is joined by Radagast, and it is revealed that the Necromancer cannot be a mere human as the Nazgûl answer only to one master. Returning to Mirkwood, while sending Radagast to warn Galadriel of their discovery, Gandalf enters the orc-infested Dol Guldur and is attacked by Azog. While attempting to escape, the Necromancer appears, and, following a duel between the two, Gandalf is captured. With his worst fears realized – that the Necromancer is indeed Sauron – Gandalf watches in horror as the orc army marches towards the Lonely Mountain.
Once at the Lonely Mountain, Bilbo deciphers the map's cryptic clue and uses moonlight to find the hidden keyhole that opens the secret door into the mountain. Balin then explains Bilbo's real purpose and send him down to the treasury to locate the Arkenstone. Unfortunately, Bilbo's searching quickly awakens Smaug, who initially finds the hobbit amusing but swiftly tires of him and intends to kill him. In Laketown, Bard hears the rumbling caused by Smaug's awakening and attempts to affix the last Black Arrow to the town's launcher, but is arrested. Oin, Fili, Bofur, and Bard's daughters are attacked by Bolg's hunting party before Legolas and Tauriel drive them off, with the latter remaining behind to tend to Kili. Then in a dream like state after his medication Kili admits his love for Tauriel. After convincing Thorin that they must help Bilbo, the Dwarves enter the mountain and find themselves and the Hobbit being hunted by Smaug. Tricking the fire-breathing Smaug into rekindling the forges, they attempt to kill the dragon by drowning him in a flood of molten gold. However, Smaug survives and stumbles out of the mountain determined to make the people of Lake-Town suffer for giving aid to the Dwarves, leaving Bilbo horrified at the turn of events.
Etymology
The film itself is named after the dragon Smaug and the wastes surrounding his lair. The dragon's name, Smaug, derives from the Old English smeag (of or pertaining to a worm).
Appearances
Characters | Species and creatures | Locations | Factions, groups and titles |
Events | Objects and artifacts | Miscellanea |
Characters
Species and creatures
Locations
Factions, groups and titles
Events
Objects and artifacts
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Miscellanea
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Cast
In addition to the previous cast from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Lee Pace, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans and Mikael Persbrandt join the cast.
The film gives Bard two additional daughters, Tilda and Sigrid
Main Cast
- Ian McKellen as Gandalf
- Martin Freeman as Bilbo
- 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 as Ori
Minor
- Orlando Bloom as Legolas
- Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel
- Lee Pace as Thranduil
- Cate Blanchett as Galadriel
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug
- Mikael Persbrandt as Beorn
- Sylvester McCoy as Radagast
- Luke Evans as Bard
- Stephen Fry as Master of Lake-town
- Ryan Gage as Alfrid
- John Bell as Bain
- Peggy Nesbitt as Sigrid
- Mary Nesbitt as Tilda
- Manu Bennett as Azog
- Lawrence Makoare as Bolg
- Ben Mitchell as Narzug
- Stephen Ure as Fimbul
- Craig Hall as Galion
- Robin Kerr as Elros
- Eli Kent as Lethuin
- Simon London as Feren
- Luke Evans as Girion
- Brian Sergent as Spiders
- Peter Vere-Jones
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Necromancer
- Mark Mitchenson as Braga
- Kelly Kilgour as Soury
- Sarah Peirse as Hilda Blanca
- Nick Blake as Percy
- Dallas Barnett as Bill Ferny Sr.
- Matt Smith as Squint
- Katie Jackson as Betsy Butterbur
- Richard Whiteside as Butterbur Snr.
- Greg Ellis as Net Mender
- Ray Henwood as Old Fisherman
- Tim Gordon as Stallkeeper
- Jabez Olssen as Fish Monger
- Stephen Colbert as Lake-town Spies
- Evelyn McGee
- Stephen Colbert
- Peter Colbert
- Norman Kali
- Carter Nixon
- Zane Weiner
- Allan Smith as Orc Underling
Extended Edition only
Uncredited
Breelanders
- Gary French
Gundabad Orcs
- Kevin Estey
- Craig Young
- Many unknowns
Mirkwood Elves
- Jared Kirkwood
- Many unknowns
Lake-town Residents
- Mohammad Al-Tahad
- Mohammed Amir
- Claudia Banas
- Rodney Bane
- Tony Burton
- Colleen Cleary
- Paul Craze
- Joan Z. Dawe
- Joseph Gordon
- Sheroiz Hakimudin
- Zoe Harvey
- Chris Hewer
- Christian Hipolito
- Alan Lee as Lake-town Musician
- Simon McArthur
- Shirley McGregor Howes
- Thomasin McKenzie as Astrid
- Dallas McKinley as Lake-town Guard
- Liz Merton as Laketowner
- Keith Mole
- Hilary Morris
- Stephen O'Neill
- Ivy Rose Padilla
- Dinah Priestley
- Fiona Simpson
- Christopher Winchester
Deviations from the book
Main article: Tolkien vs. Jackson: Differences Between Story and Screenplay
- The enchanted river that makes causes drowsiness to anyone that touches it does not appear in the film.
- In the book, Thorin was captured separately and kept captive in his own room (he was treated and fed well) when he wouldn't tell his purpose in the woods. The other dwarves weren't told he was there.
- In the book, the elf-king didn't guess the purpose of the mission was the reconquest of Erebor, and didn't try to make a deal with Thorin.
- In the book, the elf-king at first allowed the other dwarves to move about freely within his halls, but he finally locked them up, each to his own cell, because they were being obnoxious and insulting.
- In the book, Bilbo hid the dwarves in the barrels (closed up, not opened) while the chief guard and Galion the butler were asleep, and later the elves themselves pushed the barrels (which they thought were empty) through the trapdoor and opened the portcullis at the water-gate to let the barrels into the river.
- In the book, the portcullis was a grate lowered down across the opening (the water-gate) that let the stream from the cave flow out into the river. In the film, the portcullis was a side-swinging type and it wouldn't have kept anybody inside the cave because it was outside on the river.
- In the book, there was no pursuit by elves after the escape from the elf-king's halls (where the elves did not yet know how the dwarves had escaped), and there was no orc attack as the barrels floated down the Forest River.
- Bard the Bowman did not meet the dwarves on the river in the book; elves intercepted the barrels and made them into a raft they steered down the river to Long Lake where men in boats pulled it into Lake-town with the undiscovered dwarves still inside and Bilbo (still wearing his ring) invisibly riding along.
- Neither Legolas nor Tauriel appear in the book.
- Bard the Bowman's children, Bain, Sigrid and Tilda, do not make an appearance in the book.
- In the novel, the last rays of the setting sun on Durin's Day reveal the keyhole to the secret door into the Lonely Mountain, as predicted by the runes on the map. But in the film, the light of the moon reveals the keyhole after the sun has set.
- The climax of the film is an involved battle between Thorin's dwarves and Smaug inside of The Lonely Mountain. In the novel, the dwarves never see the dragon at all; by the time they head downstairs to the dragon's lair, Smaug is long gone (in fact, although they don't know it, he's already dead).
Videos
Trailers
Clips
Extras
Images
Posters
Character Posters
French Posters
Promotional Photos
Screenshots
File:Desolation - City of Dale.jpg |
File:Desolation - Gandalf in Dol Guldur.jpg |
Soundtrack
- The Quest for Erebor
- Wilderland
- The House of Beorn
- Mirkwood
- Flies and Spiders
- The Woodland Realm
- Feast of Starlight
- Barrels out of Bond
- The Forest River
- Bard a man of Laketown
- The High Fells
- The Nature of Evil
- Protector of the Common Folk
- Thrice Welcome
- Girion, Lord of Dale
- Durin's Folk
- In the Shadow of the Mountain
- Spell of Concealment
- On the Doorstep
- The Courage of Hobbits
- Inside Information
- Kingsfoil
- A Liar and a Thief
- The Hunters
- Smaug
- My Armor is Iron
- I See Fire - Ed Sheeran
- Beyond the Forest
References
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien | |
Book: | The Hobbit |
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Movie trilogy: | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies |
Animated movie: | The Hobbit (1977) |
Miscellaneous: | The Hobbit Software Adventure | The Hobbit: The Prelude to The Lord of the Rings |
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies |
External link
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug at Tolkien Gateway
- The Hobbit: Desolation Of Smaug Movie Poster
- Detailed differences between the book and the film