New clips, b-roll and behind-the-scenes images from the anticipated Warner Bros. movie THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES have been released.

The film, directed by Peter Jackson, stars Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Billy Connolly, Hugo Weaving, Benedict Cumberbatch, Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, and Christopher Lee.

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES will be released in theaters on December 17, 2014.

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Bilbo and Company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the terrifying Smaug from acquiring a kingdom of treasure. and obliterating all of Middle-Earth.