The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies (2014) Trailer #1

I suppose given that Comic-Con has just wrapped I shouldn’t be surprised to see this burgle my internet feeds, but I wasn’t expecting the first trailer so soon. After my growing dissatisfaction with The Desolation of Smaug here’s hoping Jackson can rescue this series and find another sprinkling of the LOTR magic;

First impressions? I really, really, really think that bringing Legolas and by osmosis the Elves into this trilogy to such a degree may have severely fucked it up, and although the call back to Pippin’s song in ROTK connects the franchise arcs I fucking hated that song the first time around. This does not bode well……