…so…horrible…
Not sure I can take any more. It sickens me.
Seriously, though. That’s all wrong. Just…wrong.
Although the shot of Smaug torching Laketown was pretty decent.
Shoot me.
Overwrought, campy effects, stupidity, and god help me I think it’s another bloody Radagast sled ride.
I’m beginning to wonder if PJ or the Studio has decreed that there must be a minimum number of EPIC CHASE!!1! scenes per movie.
Definite WTF moment with the wagon on the ice (think it is Dwarven and not Radagast). (tie in with Dain’s army on battle goats I think)
Good music and cool armor at least. And I like the poster:
Brian
What’s with the scene of Galadriel kissing Gandalf? Is it another death experience for Gandalf?
He must get rescued from the Necromancer’s hold. I’m betting he is passed out.
PJ has a pretty low opinion of Gandalf, it seems.
I don’t see myself being able to watch the last installment.
twitch…twitch
“battle goats”? What the holy fuck are battle goats?
Ok, so TORN calls them war-goats. Basically ride able (at least by Dwarves) gotas. In armor.
(I forget, how did Dain’s army arrive in the book?)
brian
Not by goats - they marched.
Yup - in fact, as I recall correctly, the point is made that dwarves can carry great loads over long distances on foot (so if they are allowed in to the lonely mountain, they would have with them lots of supplies).
Not to mention they would allow Thorin to open a second gate stretching the besieging army to the point where they could not prevent Erebor’s continual resupply from the Iron Hills. It forces the parties into direct conflict instead of the static bloodless siege they’re enduring.
Where did this second “the” come from all of a sudden? According to my edition of The Hobbit (the book), the conflict was called “The Battle of Five Armies.” Not “THE Five Armies.”
Presumably, the same place the “battle goats” came from. 
Sprinkling extra “the” makes it “theology”, n’est-ce pas? Hence deep, requiring those large dwarf boots.
Perhaps the screenwriter is a graduate of The Ohio State University.
A plausible explanation as any.
Guessing the “the” is in parallel to the three LOTR Movies starting with “The” as well
TORN’s frame-by-frame analysis:
Brian