To mark the 10th anniversary of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, we're looking back at why it comes up short of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

The Battle of the Five Armies is also a little closer in tone to the LOTR films than An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Desolation of Smaug (2013) – not that Bilbo Baggins’ prolonged burglary career ...

And so: “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” it is. As Professor Tolkien intended, “There and Back Again” encompasses Bilbo’s entire adventure, so don’t be surprised if you see ...

The downside to this is that 'The Battle Of The Five Armies' doesn’t look quite as pin-sharp in motion as the first Hobbit film on Blu-ray - though this seems a trade worth making overall.

"The Hobbit" stars promise "bold" end to series 01:12 "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" ends Peter Jackson's second Middle-Earth trilogy with a booming finale. There are huge, CGI-laden ...

The Hobbit: Part One: Part Three. It’s a thing. And it’s the best thing of the series, though that’s like saying the best part of being a hostage is when they send the pizza or donuts in for ...

Peter Jackson's "Hobbit" trilogy wraps with this final epic set to open in theaters on Dec. 17 ...

There is a moment late in “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” after what may be the longest on-screen battle in movie history, when Ian McKellen’s Gandalf sits quietly beside Martin ...

This is the way “The Hobbit” ends: not with a whimper, but with an epic battle royale. True to its subtitle, “The Battle of the Five Armies” (revised from the initially more pacific ...