Final Two Character Posters for The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies

The final two character posters for The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies has been released. The poster run began with Bilbo and now ends with Bilbo along with the Elvenking Thranduil who has his part to play in the battle. The others posters: Bilbo, Gandalf, Galadriel, Bard, Thorin and Tauriel.

SDCC: The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies Panel Description

Saturday Peter Jackson and some of the cast members of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies were on hand at Hall H to discuss the movie. As is usual for these things, none of it is made available to the public (keep thinking that would change each year) but at least have a description of the thirty minute or so panel. It started with a 360 degree reveal of the scroll panorama (video below) for the film, the teaser trailer and then a Q&A with the cast. Chances are the scroll image and teaser will be released very soon, maybe even this week. Full details here and here, highlights below.

Three Clips from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The marketing campaign for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is officially in full swing as the cast starts making the talk show runs around the world. Already in the states Ian McKellen appeared on The Colbert Report while Evangeline Lilly visited Craig Ferguson. Between those visits, EW and IGN, we now have three clips from the movie. The first two will seem familiar as bits were used in the movie's trailers. The first is a scene between Gandalf and Bilbo, the second between Tauriel and Legolas while the last is truly new as an Orc shrugs off the threats from Legolas and Thranduil.

New The Hobbit Trailer Tomorrow, Two Desolation of Smaug Posters

The officially The Hobbit trilogy twitter account has revealed two new banners for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, one featuring Bilbo and the Dwarves and the other featuring the Elven King Thranduil (Lee Pace). In addition they wrote, "The new trailer for #TheHobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be unveiled tomorrow (Tuesday, 10/1) at 6am PT / 9am ET!". A somewhat early sneak peak will also appear on US TV as the account mentioned, "Orlando Bloom and Sir @IanMcKellen will be introducing the new trailer for #TheHobbit on the @TODAYshow tomorrow! Tune in at 8am." Not sure if that means exactly at 8 or sometime in the 8 o'clock hour. Easier to just wait until it pops up online than slog through the Today show for it who will tease it umpteen different times and delay as long as possible for the potential ratings boost. So until tomorrow, enjoy the posters below. Trailer #2 is now out.

New Empire Cover Features The Hobbit Elves

Here is the cover for the August 2013 issue of Empire Magazine features the three main elves of The Hobbit trilogy, Orlando Bloom (Legolas), gorgeous Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel) and Lee Lace (Thranduil). No details yet from the issue but that will change soon.

Elf Actors Reacting To Fans Reacting To New Trailer

Peter Jackson posted an amusing video that shows The Hobbit Elves of Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Lee Pace (Thranduil) as they watch the video posted by Kellie and Alex (or Kili and Fili on The One Ring forums) reacting to the new The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug trailer. Now below in order are 1) Peter Jackson's Happy Elves video 2) the original video from the sisters and 3) the new teaser trailer.

Hit play on all three real quick one after the other. The idea is so can see the actors reacting to the girls as they react to the trailer, hopefully all on one screen if screen resolution is big enough. The result is both endearing and amusing. Update: So now have "Kili and Fili"'s response to the actors' response...well you get idea. You can find that here.