It starts with a thrilling opening, loads up the screen with a destructive dragon, evil Orcs, immortal elves, brave dwarves and concludes with a bravo ending. Unlike both predecessors, “Five Armies” doesn’t sag in the storytelling. From that perspective, Jackson’s final bit of Tolkien tinkering ends on a high enough note, giving fans of the author and director what they want: Middle-earth showdowns, sweeping spectacles and distressing deaths. Instead, let’s just agree to table the debate about whether padding a series is pointless and simply take Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” at face value.
Tolkien’s trim “The Hobbit” out into three long-winded movies and grouse about how greed motivated Hollywood to cleave the final “The Hunger Games” book into two sections, a dubious trend cribbed from the “Twilight” and “Harry Potter” franchises.īut let’s not. Ares Games plans to expand the Battles game system in the future, releasing expansions depicting other battles from the Third Age of Middle-earth narrated in The Lord of the Rings, such as the Siege of Gondor and the assault of Saruman against Rohan.We can squabble about whether there was a valid reason to stretch J.R.R. The Battle of Five Armies is a standalone game based on the rules for War of the Ring, which is from the same designers, but with the rules modified to function on a tactical level as they describe a smaller battle rather than the entire war. Will Gandalf turn the tide for the Free Peoples? Will the Eagles arrive, or Beorn come to the rescue? Or will Bilbo the Hobbit perish in a last stand on Ravenhill? The Battle of Five Armies features a game board representing the Eastern and Southern spurs of the Lonely Mountain and the valley they encircle, and a number of plastic figures representing troops, heroes and monsters. The Battle of Five Armies – based on the climax of JRR Tolkien's novel The Hobbit – pits the hosts of the Elvenking, the Dwarves of Dain Ironfoot, and the Men of the Lake led by Bard the Bowman against a horde of Wolves, Goblins and Bats led by Bolg, son of Azog.
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