Many movie sites are trying to wrest insights from the following two and a half minutes of film footage.

Our favorite comment on the trailer comes from The Guardian: “What does the new trailer for the second Hobbit movie tell us? Mostly that Peter Jackson knows more about Middle Earth than JRR Tolkien did.”

Official Movie Site: TheHobbit.com

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug opens Dec. 13.

To tie in to the release, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is publishing a Visual Companion, a Movie Storybook, and an Official Movie Guide. HarperDesign is publishing a book by the Weta Workshop, the company that designed the movie’s special effects, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Chronicles: Art & Design

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