The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug -- Official Teaser Trailer
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug -- Official Teaser Trailer
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is an upcoming 2013 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson. It is the second of a three-part film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, beginning with An Unexpected Journey (2012) and set to conclude with There and Back Again (2014). The three films together act as prequels to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
The musical score for The Desolation of Smaug was composed by Howard Shore, and was performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The original motion picture soundtrack album is expected to release in 2013, to coincide with the film's release.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is scheduled for release on December 13, 2013.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
JRR Tolkien was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—both authors served on the English faculty at Oxford University, and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings".
Lewis was raised in a church-going family in the Church of Ireland. He became an atheist at 15, and later described himself as being paradoxically "very angry with God for not existing". CS Lewis slowly re-embraced Christianity, influenced by arguments with his Oxford colleague J. R. R. Tolkien.