The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

hello everybody and thank you for listening to retold the podcast where i retell you my favorite stories of all time or at the very least i talk about them i don't always recap everything that happens but you know in these lord of the rings episodes it felt kind of wrong to say retell because i was like well we're not retelling it necessarily uh but Anyway, welcome to Retold.

In today's episode, we're going to be talking about the good and the bad of the Hobbit movies.

Specifically, in my case, being a big fan of the Hobbit movies, I'm going to try to argue that there are three things, not just that are good about the Hobbit movies, but that the Hobbit movies do even better than the Lord of the Rings movies.

That's a tall task.

We'll see if I can make it happen.

Make sure nobody hears the things that you say.

But...

So you two both are, you've seen the Hobbit movies, obviously.

there's a hammer playing down on the table when the moot is called to order at first they start talking about quite trivial matters you hear the assembled elders talking about trade between their houses and the allies and mountain hall complains that the beyondings are putting tolls on their traffic woodsman's town asks for more iron and tin from mountain hall and uh Another dwarf, she turns up, is there, who offers to sell swords and spears.

And next, Amalodi speaks, and she tells that the recent years since the Battle of Five Armies have brought wonderful harvests, the lake is full of fish, and that in years gone by there used to be played with fog and terrible weather, and that's miraculously gone after the Battle of Five Armies, and They invite more woodsmen to come south with them to the Black Tarn.

They want to build a wood, a longhouse, and build a wall around the settlement.

People stop laughing.

Let us know how you pronounce that word.

But anyways, he, in a Facebook group, wrote down that, and answered the question about, are there any plans for a new edition of the Battle of Five Armies? So generally, there is Wuthering, which is the top-rated Lord of the Rings board game ever made, as well as our favorite.

Yes,

it is the best Lord of the Rings board game.

And then there's Battle of Five Armies, and that board game is generally like the little sister of Lord of the Rings, which zooms in on the Battle of Five Armies of more dwarves fighting there, and there's smoke and stuff.

From Hobbit.

From Hobbit.

Yeah, so that game.

I want this to be a theme park.

The way that you see those great fantasy movies like Star Wars and The Hobbit and Hobbit 2 and Hobbit 3.

Yeah.

Yeah,

So these men, I believe, are akin to the men of Lake-town or the Bardings.

But I know on the orcs, I can surmise, you know obviously that around the time of the Battle of Five Armies, the wizards and other very powerful people, um, attacked the Necromancer and drove him out of Dol Guldur.

Well, he had many orcs.

Could these not be some of the ones left over?

My only advice is to be vigilant.

If he is a friend, he could be a good friend.

So it is difficult, isn't it? I've always been a suspicious and watchful person, but I've learned the benefits of friendship from the Battle of Five Armies almost, which is why I've now gathered together a band who I...

of men to try and keep, keep the country peaceful, keep evil things at bay.

There have been quite a lot of people envisioning Dwarf Cavalry.

Immediately to mind spring the chariots and goat riders from the Battle of the Five Armies, the Peter Jackson movie.

Think of that movie what you may.

It was a cool scene and getting those dwarves on those goats and Dane on his boar.

Yeah, I...

I think their budget got slashed on the Hobbit 3.

The budget for Hobbit 3 was cut down based on Hobbit 1 and

2.

Yeah, it could have been the post-production, because they did the same thing, right? They made them all together.