First time watching The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug movie reaction

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Fun fact : Smaug is actually the smallest of the dragons in Middle Earth.

I remember seeing this in the theater and thinking "son of a bitch, i gotta wait a year for the next one!!"

In the theaters the Smaug parts were so cool, when he spoke the walls of the theater vibrated making you feel like you were hiding in there watching the whole thing with Bilbo

I love Legolas' depiction in the Hobbit movies - He's younger, headstrong, and very brash! It shows how much he matures between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

“I am fire. I am….Death” is a line that will forever chill me to the bone

Thorin whispering "I have the only right." Is one of my favorite lines.

Smaug is voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. You should see all the behind the scenes footage of him recording the voice. He wore the CGI special suit and crawled on the ground and actually acted out the Smaug scenes as he did the voice. It's a sight to see. 🐉🐲

It's actually been about 200 years since Smaug attacked. It took place in the Third Age the year 2770, and the year that the Quest for Erebor happens is 2941 (a little nerd fact for ya there). Dwarves have longer lifespans than humans but shorter than elves who are immortal, and live for centuries. It is however 60 years prior to the events of Lord of the Rings.

Cucumberpatch also did the voice of Sauron, as well as doing insane mocap for Smaug. Definitely the best of the 3 for me.

Some fun trivia: Luke Evans who plays Bard the Bowman, actually also plays his ancestor Girion in the flashback scene. And also the girls playing Bard’s daughters (who are wholly original creations not from the books) are actually the real life daughters of actor James Nesbitt who plays Bofur, one of the dwarves. And John Bell who plays Bard’s son Bain, grew so much between filming and reshoots that they had to have him bend at the knees a bit in certain shots so he wouldn’t look like his height changed.

Luke Evans is one hell of a actor! His role in Dracula Untold was absolutly insane

I know not a lot of people will say this but, Lee Pace, who plays King Thranduil, the father of Legolas, does a phenomenal job in these movies. You'll see more of him in the last movie! Probably one of my favorites from the cast besides Martin Freeman (Bilbo). Great reaction guys! ☺️

I would just like to say Thandruil is a very complex character and there is much more to him that what you might think. He is very proud but also extremly protective over his own. He is harsh but not unreasonable and he has a very tragic backstory, which explains why he is so protective and also so hung up on these jewels.

Reading the books, Beorn was by far my favorite character - his strength in contrast to his gentle care for all kinds of animals is amazing ☺

Fili and Kili were born after the dwarves lost the lonely mountain to smaug. That should tell you it's been a while.

A couple of points of context: Tolkien very much drew on existing mythology for his creations. Not directly copying anything, but including elements. Smaug draws heavily on the Norse Saga of Fafnir. Dragons in Tolkien's world are very intelligent and have hypnotic style abilities (which is how Smaug forced Bilbo to take off the ring,) but with crucial weaknesses. They cannot resist gold or a puzzle. In order to understand Smaug's reasoning for not immediately killing Bilbo, its important to understand his perspective. You know that one day, maybe in 10 years maybe in 100, that someone is gonna come looking for the gold. And the first intruder to come looking is this little guy with no shoes, dressed a little bit like a dwarf, but doesn't smell like a dwarf. So immediately Smaug is on Bilbo "Who are you and where do you come from?" Telling a dragon your name is a very bad idea, because if a dragon knows your name it has power over you. Smaug is trying to figure out "Okay, what exactly is the threat here? If I kill this dude is there gonna be a massive army outside looking to force its way in or is he acting alone?" Bilbo quite simply fascinates Smaug, because he's never seen anything quite like Bilbo. Because he's been sleeping on his hoard for so long, gold and gems have become embedded in Smaug's hide. This leads to the epithet "Smaug the Golden." Hence the scenes with the forges and statue. Also, piss Smaug off enough to go to Lake-town. Smaug's erupting dragon fire is based upon a real weapon of war called the Liven's Projector. (Director Peter Jackson is a massive WW1 nerd and did a programme where he and a load of other people restored black and white WW1 video footage to full colour and audio.) You're right to be angry with Gandalf saying he was gonna meet the Dwarves there and then doesn't. But the revelation that the Necromancer is in fact Sauron drives all other considerations from his mind. This is the first time in Millennia that Sauron has been seen 'alive' and most believed him completely impotent, unable to exert himself on the world unless he recovers the ring. (Which is why he set up camp in Dol Guldur, he wanted to search the river that Isildur died in.)

I went to the midnight premiere for this one, and when it ended on that cliffhanger, the whole theater erupted in denial and “WHAT??? WHAT??? YOURE ENDING IT THERE???” Testament to how hooked we were that we all were desperate to see how it played out

Always found funny how Smaug is one of the smallest dragons, he is like the size of one of the toes of Ancalagon the Black

The fish that were dumped into the barrels to hide Bilbo and the dwarves were actually real fish, with a few rubber props mixed in with them. At one point Adam Brown (who plays Ori) had 400 pounds of fish dumped directly on top of him! Made even worse by the fact that Brown suffers from ichthyophobia, which is phobia of fish!!