The final trailer for the Hobbit shows dramatic war-torn scene

A dramatic new trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has sparked excitement online. Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson is behind the third film in a popular trilogy based on JRR Tolkien’s timeless masterpiece, The Hobbit.

Unlike the first two films in Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, which each had several trailers and a wide variety of behind-the-scenes video blogs, we haven’t gotten much of a look at the Battle of the Five Armies just yet — we’ve only seen a comparatively simple trailer released at the San Diego Comic Con.

However, we’re now getting a bigger taste of Jackson’s vision for the final movie with this full trailer. As expected, it strikes a far darker tone than the films that preceded it.

Peter Jackson has spent years making JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth into a CGI spectacular – and the director has revealed that he intends to end things with a bang.

The final installment in The Hobbit trilogy, entitled The Battle of the Five Armies, is set to culminate in an epic, 45-minute battle scene. We haven’t seen such a lengthy fight since 13 Assassins.

However, if you are troubled that 45 minutes of sword-swinging might become a bit boring, Peter Jackson is quick to reassure that the sequence will be designed to avoid losing the audience…“We have a rule that we’re not allowed to go more than two or three shots of anonymous people fighting without cutting back to our principal characters,” says Jackson. “Otherwise the audience just ends up with battle fatigue.”