
In one of the movie’s more brutal scenes, Gollum drags away a half-unconscious goblin and uses a rock to repeatedly smash the goblin over the head until the goblin is dead.Then he slashes the goblin across the throat (no blood and gore is shown). Gandalf uses a sword to slash a giant goblin across the stomach. A battle between some dwarves and numerous cave goblins involves dwarves slashing and stabbing goblins with swords and smashing them with sledge hammers.
A troll holds a dwarf above his open mouth, and it looks like he’s about to eat the dwarf alive.
Later several of the dwarves are tied to a large spit placed over a fire as if for roasting. The dwarves use swords and axes to stab and chop at the trolls’ legs, arms, stomachs and bottoms. There is a comical fight between three mountain trolls and some dwarves.The bodies of hundreds of dead dwarves and orcs litter the ground, and only a few dwarves survive. A dwarf uses a sword to cut off Azog’s arm, and blood spurts out of the severed stump. Azog throws the severed head along the ground.
A giant white orc (Azog) cuts a dwarf’s head off and holds it up (we see bloody tissue at the severed neck). The orcs throw the dwarves off a cliff face.
During an epic battle between orcs and dwarves, hundreds of orcs and dwarves charge at each other, slashing and stabbing with swords and spears. Flaming rubble falls down on top of dwarves. A stone tower with dwarves in it is destroyed as if hit by bomb blasts. Smaug tramples dwarves under his gigantic feet. Spouts of flame thunder down hallways and burn everything in their path. Fiery winds blow dwarves off their feet and hurl them through the air like rag dolls. One scene shows shadowy images of Smaug destroying a dwarf mountain fortress. This movie contains some slapstick violence but also brutal violence, intense battle scenes – which include bodies being cut up and heads being cut off – and some blood and gore. The supernatural reclaiming heritage revenge pride Violence They are almost eaten by mountain trolls, must fight off fierce orcs led by a gigantic white orc called Azog (Manu Bennett), escape cave goblins led by the Great Goblin (Barry Humphries) and are chased by a pack of savage wargs, or giant wolves. This is how he begins the greatest adventure of his life, one that will change him forever.ĭuring his epic adventure, Bilbo, Gandalf and the dwarves find themselves in one dangerous situation after another. Initially Bilbo says no, but the following day he reconsiders and chases after the dwarves. They ask Bilbo to join their band as a burglar. Dwalin is soon followed by Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen) and 12 more dwarves, who are on a quest to reclaim Erebor from Smaug. The unexpected visitor is a dwarf called Dwalin (Graham McTavish), who enters and starts eating Bilbo’s meal. Bilbo then tells Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) the story of his great adventure as a young hobbit, and the rest of the movie is a flashback to 60 years earlier.Ī young Bilbo (Martin Freeman) is about to sit down for his evening meal when he is disturbed by a knock at the door. Erebor was destroyed by the dragon Smaug, leaving the population homeless. Bilbo tells how the wealthy kingdom of Erebor was ruled by the dwarf king Thror (Jeffrey Thomas), his son Thrain and grandson Thorin (Richard Armitage). It opens with a story by 111-year-old Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm). The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the first part of a trilogy.