BARD: Give us your answer.
Will you have peace or war?
I will have war.
JACKSON: The third Hobbit film is the last piece of the puzzle.
So ultimately it will be six movies...
...that become the grand story...
...that you can see from beginning to end.
GANDALF: This is the last move in a master plan.
And a plan long in the making.
BOYENS: In the end, all these threads are going to intersect.
Then people are going to see each story feeding into the other...
...because they were always all part of the same story.
OLD BILBO: My old sword!
Sting.
Here, take it. Take it.
When we were making The Lord of the Rings, we couldn't help...
...popping references to The Hobbit.
So there I was...
...at the mercy of three monstrous trolls.
The sun's first light turned them all to stone.
[GROWLING]
Look, Frodo...
...it's Mr. Bilbo's trolls.
FRODO: Before you came along, we Bagginses were very well thought of.
Hello, Mr. Bilbo.
Never had any adventures or did anything unexpected.
If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved.
All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.
Can you promise that I will come back?
No.
And if you do...
...you will not be the same.
JACKSON: Having done The Lord of the Rings...
...it was a joy for us to go back and to weave in threads and characters...
...and setups that ultimately do pay off in The Lord of the Rings.
GANDALF: Bilbo had a shirt of mithril-rings that Thorin gave him.
You're going to need this.
Mithril.
GALADRIEL: And nine...
...nine rings were gifted to the race of Men.
ARAGORN: Blinded by their greed, they took them without question.
One by one, falling into darkness.
They are the Nazgul.
[SCREAMING]
In The Hobbit, we also layer in...
...and introduce the resurrection of Sauron.
At the end of the Second Age when Sauron was defeated...
...the White Council was formed to guard against the return of that evil.
GANDALF: There is something at work beyond the evil of Smaug.
Something far more powerful.
Sauron!
The events at Dol Guldur do have a lot of echo in The Lord of the Rings.
Galadriel banishes Sauron.
But in so doing, she uses so much of her power.
JACKSON: She's left herself virtually spent.
Yeah, she will never be as strong as she was ever again.
SARUMAN: Look after the Lady Galadriel.
Take her to Lothlorien.
BOYENS: When we meek her in The Fellowship of the Ring...
...it sort of explains why she is not taking such an active role...
...in the events of the Fellowship.
I Will diminish...
...and go into the West...
...and remain Galadriel.
JACKSON: And also at Dol Guldur, you've got Saruman.
Leave Sauron to me.
Well, yeah, that was a noble intention...
...but unfortunately Sauron is able to snare Saruman...
...with the Palantiri as we see in The Lord of the Rings.
SAURON: Build me an army worthy of Mordor.
JACKSON: And so Saruman and Gandalf...
...represent opposites of what can happen if you have great strength and power.
Saruman has arrogance and contempt...
...but Gandalf has humility and great respect for the peoples of Middle-earth.
In The Hobbit, Gandalf was the only one to recognize this was actually a beginning...
...that Sauron was getting ready to put forth his armies.
JACKSON: The Battle of Five Armies is initiated by Sauron...
...and so, ultimately, it is his first strike.
Why show his hand now?
Because we forced him.
We forced him when the Company of Thorin set out to reclaim...
...their homeland.
Sauron seeks control over the mountain.
For where it lies, its strategic position.
BOYENS: If Sauron can take the Lonely Mountain...
...he begins to corner...
...the kingdoms of the free peoples of Middle-earth.
GANDALF: Rivendell, Lorien, the Shire...
...even Gondor itself, will fall.
And so the Battle of the Five Armies...
...is really the first conflict in the War of the Ring.
It is one of the most critical moments in the history of Middle-earth.
TOBIN: With Sauron revealing himself...
...that's kind of a wake-up call to these groups of people...
...that have become more and more isolated from each other.
Up until this battle, the Elves and the Dwarves have been at each other's throats.
OLD BILBO: It is sad, Frodo, how old alliances can be broken...
...how friendships between peoples can be lost.
And for what?
JACKSON: And so you get finally the realization that there is a greater enemy...
...that is more important for them to be fighting rather than each other.
The story of a group of Dwarves setting out to reclaim their homeland from a dragon...
...has totally turned a corner now.
You see a coming together of two very ancient enemies.
And without their alliance, all would have been lost.
JACKSON: And it's the legacy of Thorin Oakenshield that he created the situation...
...that basically leads to The Fellowship of the Ring.
ELROND: This peril belongs to all Middle-earth.
They must decide now how to end it.
LEGOLAS: I cannot go back.
THRANDUIL: Go north.
Find the Dunedain.
There's a young Ranger amongst them.
He's known in the Wild as Strider.
His true name...
...you must discover for yourself.
LEGOLAS: This is no mere ranger.
He is Aragorn.
Son of Arathorn.
It's the beginnings of the pieces of the puzzle...
...that lead to the formation of the Fellowship...
...and the great fight for Middle-earth.
But ultimately, the most important part of the battle to save Middle-earth...
...is this little ring.
It has a beautiful fatefulness about it...
...that the most unlikely person...
...should find the most powerful object...
...in Middle-earth.
GANDALF: "One Ring to rule them all...
...One Ring to find them...
...One Ring to bring them all...
...and in the darkness bind them."
BOYENS: Having done The Lord of the Rings first...
...we were able to bring to The Hobbit...
...the importance of the very fateful moments that occur.
Most importantly of all...
...the fact that Bilbo doesn't kill Gollum.
FRODO: It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance.
GANDALF: Pity?
It is pity that stayed Bilbo's hand.
JACKSON: If Bilbo kills Gollum...
...Gollum is not there on Mount Doom to fall into the lava with the ring.
SERKIS: It's easy to judge people.
It's easy to say, "You don't deserve to exist."
But there was something in Bilbo...
...that stopped him from doing that.
The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.
SERKIS: Which, finally, was the salvation for everyone.
BILBO: One day I'll remember.
Remember everything that happened, the good, the bad...
...and how lucky I am that I made it home.
FRODO: Bilbo once told me his part in this tale would end...
...that each of us must come and go in the telling.
SAM: "There and Back Again: A Hobbit's Tale by Bilbo Baggins.
And The Lord of the Rings by Frodo Baggins."
You finished it.
- It's wonderful to see you, Gandalf! - Ha-ha-ha.
FRODO: Bilbo, watch out for the dragon.
THORIN: Loyalty, honor...
...a willing heart.
I can ask no more than that.
GIMLI: Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an Elf.
What about side by side with a friend?
GANDALF: All you have to decide...
...is what to do with the time that is given to you.
GALADRIEL: Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
Oh, come on, come on, Gandalf. It was just a bit of fun.
JACKSON: The Lord of the Rings is based on such a well-loved book.
So the responsibility of bringing this world to the screen...
...is obviously enormous.
And finally the technology caught up with the incredible imagination...
...that Tolkien injected into this story of his.
And so this is the time.
This is the time that this movie can finally be made.
MAN: And action!
JACKSON: We began the shoot in 1999.
It was the opportunity of a lifetime, especially in New Zealand...
...where we don't get to make films of this size. We never have.
BLOOM: There was no expectation.
No idea of what the movie was going to be.
There was a lot of things that we were kind of figuring out as we went along.
This is the biggest low-budget film we've made in the history of the planet.
[LAUGHTER]
Follow me. Follow me.
JACKSON: We shot all three movies at the same time...
...with the same cast, with the same crew.
Elijah suddenly realizes that he hasn't got the ring.
And he's like, "Oh, my God. Where is the ring?"
It was a massive undertaking.
This was never planned. This is chaos. Organized chaos.
WOOD: How lucky are we to be in New Zealand to see this?
That's half of why this movie is so amazing.
OSBORNE: By the time that we shot the bulk of The Two Towers...
...we started to split off into units.
We weren't together anymore.
A literal breaking of the Fellowship. They all went off...
...to do their journeys.
Going UP-
Fire!
JACKSON: The Helms Deep, we shot endless night shoots.
There were about three or four months' worth of night shoots.
[YELLING]
MORTENSEN: You can see it on people's faces how tired they were.
Everybody had this sort of vampire life, and they're like these creatures of the night.
[LAUGHING MANIACALLY]
Been there, done that. Ha-ha-ha.
JACKSON: We were inventing a lot of the technology in the way...
...in which we could use digital tools to tell a story like this.
[IN GOLLUM'S VOICE] Oh, yes.
JACKSON: We were under enormous pressure to design and develop Gollum...
...at a time when CGI had never gone to that level.
All new territory. People weren't sure if it's gonna work.
I'm not listening.
[YELLS]
You know, it was a big rolling adventure. You're holding on to the reins.
This thing's completely out of control, but you're trying to ride it out.
OSBORNE: Even looking back on it today, I wonder how we got through all of that work.
- But we did. - Ah! Uh!
Four years down the line, and finally you've arrived at your official last day.
And cut.
Lovely last shot.
WOOD: Thank you, Peter.
You finished it.
JACKSON: It's become a lifestyle more than just a job.
It was like your suburb, really. Everybody's lives just kept happening...
...in this place for a very long period of time.
Have you seen my tattoo?
Where are the tats? Get the tats out.
[MAN LAUGHING]
That is nine.
Elvish. Of course.
The Fellowship, baby.
Not one member of the Fellowship that I don't think I'll know for the rest of my life.
WOOD: We were doing it together as a force...
...and in that way, the Fellowship became a reality.
MORTENSEN: Fifty years from now, the interaction of the characters...
...and the way that Peter has inspired everyone...
...to commit to this story is what will last.
JACKSON: It was made with love, it was made with great care and commitment.
And I do genuinely think...
...that that spirit has made its way onto the screen.
LEE: They've never before given an Oscar to what they described as a fantasy.
Ever. Ever.
JACKSON: Doing three movies with all the complexity and detail that these films have...
...is something I probably will never want to do again in my life.
This is the first and only time.
Ten years later...
- B mark. - And now we're going back.
We're doing it all over again.
- Yes. - Bring me another Dwarf.
ALL: Ah! JACKSON: Fran and I just took the attitude...
...if we end up doing The Hobbit, it will be because, you know...
...that's where fate has pushed us.
I'm going on an adventure!
All right. Who would have thought it would ever have happened again?
I know. And I turned 19...
...at this location.
- And I'm 30 now. Ha-ha-ha. - Jesus.
This is my family.
So to be asked to come back...
...and be a second unit director was just phenomenal.
It was a little bit like returning to summer camp.
So many of the people who were part of the first journey are part of this journey.
He's back.
JACKSON: Shooting of The Hobbit was almost walking step by step...
...with our company as they were on their own quest.
We actually shot for 266 days on The Hobbit...
...which was the same number of days that we shot on The Lord of the Rings.
So I've sort of done the once-in-a-lifetime experience twice.
But not a third time. There won't be a third time.
BLOOM: So now it's a slightly more well-oiled machine with the same charm...
...and chaotic geniuses behind it.
Pete has such an amazing ability to take on such huge stories...
...on such epic scale.
[DRAGON SCREECHING]
Slightly scary filming a real dragon.
You've always got the thought at the back of your mind. What is Smaug gonna look like?
Unless you get this right, you're actually jeopardizing the entire film.
We're trying to shoot a dragon that doesn't exist yet.
Kept thinking of Benedict Cumberbatch's face...
...which is not good. It's not gonna look like Benedict Cumberbatch. Ha-ha.
[GRUNTS]
The Battle of Five Armies is going to be astonishing.
JACKSON: Film three, I'm actually enjoying. I think it's the best of the three.
There's a hell of a lot of action.
That's why it's called The Battle of the Five Armies.
Because it's got a battle.
We're going to see a battle unlike any battle committed to film before.
EVANS: It all became...
...an epic, exhausting few months of our lives.
ARMITAGE: So we were all battle-ready.
I know I did maybe two and a half, three weeks' worth of fighting.
I feel privileged. I can now be involved in those battles.
A huge, epic, Peter Jackson battle.
[ALL YELLING]
I can't wait. We're just gonna, you know, smash some Orc butt.
The other important thing with the battle is to keep the focus...
...on the hero characters, main characters of the film.
They are the driving force of the battle.
FREEMAN: What I always liked about Peter...
...is he never has that action and battle stuff at the expense of drama...
...and he never has it at the expense of an emotional call.
LEE: What has appeared on these screens...
...has never been done by anybody else.
ARMITAGE: There will be six movies that sit alongside each other.
It really is the end of a long journey.
[ALL CHEERING]
BLANCHETT: The power of the films, that lasting power of the films...
...as well as being gloriously entertaining...
...they'll be a memorable time capsule of the time in which they were made.
Completing these films is better than winning a gold medal at the Olympics.
This has been my home for 18 months...
...so thank you so, so much.
BROPHY: None of us wanted it to end.
I still don't want it to end. Ha-ha-ha.
That's it, mate. We did it.
We've always had the support of this incredible crew...
...that have become a family.
They went on the journey with us.
They went there and back again.
It's a big piece of your life that you spend making these films.
And now we're coming to the end of our fellowship.
Whew. That was a journey worth going on, you know?
[ALL YELLING]
[PEOPLE APPLAUDING]
[ALL CHEERING]