--- description: Welcome back, Bilbo title: Watch: This Trailer for the Final Hobbit Movie Is Ready for Battle image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb24035a2d12be33/69869d903bc99991321a4b77/hobbit-battle-five-armies.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch: This Trailer for the Final _Hobbit_ Movie Is Ready for Battle  by [Lily Rothman](/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jul 28, 2014 7:41 PM CUT   by [Lily Rothman](/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jul 28, 2014 7:41 PM CUT After a relatively [last-minute title change](http://time.com/76252/hobbit-battle-five-armies/ "undefined") that took the final installment of the _Hobbit_ series from _There and Back Again_ to _The Battle of the Five Armies_, Peter Jackson’s Tolkien adaptation is living up to its title with a suitably bellicose first teaser trailer, which premiered for a live audience at Comic-Con over the weekend. (Fun fact: the panel at which the trailer was shown was moderated by Stephen Colbert, who has a cameo in the movie, according to [HitFix’s liveblog of the event](http://www.hitfix.com/awards-campaign/the-hobbit-says-goodbye-mad-max-and-justice-league-hopes-warner-bros-comic-con-live-blog "undefined").) “Will you have peace or war?” the trailer asks — and even if Thorin weren’t there to tell us the answer (hint: war), it would be easy to guess, as the trailer is chockablock with archers, armor and dramatic music. _The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies_ is due in theaters on Dec. 17, 2014. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3048576/hobbit-battle-of-the-five-armies-trailer-watch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3048576/hobbit-battle-of-the-five-armies-trailer-watch/"},"headline":"Watch: This Trailer for the Final Hobbit Movie Is Ready for Battle","datePublished":"2014-07-28T19:41:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:22:52.155Z","description":"Welcome back, Bilbo","url":"https://time.com/3048576/hobbit-battle-of-the-five-armies-trailer-watch/","keywords":["movies","Trailer","Trailers","Lord of the Rings"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb24035a2d12be33/69869d903bc99991321a4b77/hobbit-battle-five-armies.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfb24035a2d12be33/69869d903bc99991321a4b77/hobbit-battle-five-armies.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies","caption":"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3048576/hobbit-battle-of-the-five-armies-trailer-watch/","name":"Watch: This Trailer for the Final Hobbit Movie Is Ready for Battle"}}]}] ```