


It was released in December 2014.īeginning immediately where the prior film ended, the Dragon Smaug unleashes his wrath on Laketown, Gandalf remains a prisoner in Dol Guldur, and the Necromancer's forces prepare for a war to wipe out the free peoples of Middle-Earth once and for all. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, previously known as The Hobbit: There and Back Again, is the third and final film in the three-part cinematic adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien's classic fantasy novel The Hobbit, directed by Peter Jackson and adapted for the screen by Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens.
