The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies is one of the year's biggest releases and arrives in less than five months, yet actually information is very thin on the ground. Peter Jackson doesn't really need to do much to promote the film beyond simply announce its existence, but you'd expect by now we'd have more than a couple of screenshots and the odd snippet from interviews. A (apparently very short) teaser is rumoured to be imminent but Jackson has said (due to the time it's taking for Weta Digital to finish off the visual effects) we won't get the full trailer until October. OCTOBER?! That's, like, two months before release. The spoilerphobe side of us kinda hopes this sets a precedent in more toned back advertising (we really don't need another case akin to Prometheus or The Amazing Spider-Man 2 where we've seen the whole movie before even buying a ticket), but the rampant speculator side (which will be very much on show today) is starting to get the shakes. With all the changes made between Jackson's trilogy and J.R.R. Tolkien's original book there's a lot more questions about plot than you'd expect in a novel adaptation. Coming up are the ten biggest questions on our minds regarding The Battle Of The Five Armies, along with some theories as to what the answers might be. We'll find out if we're right on December 17th. Please note: as we're using the original book for reference there are massive spoilers within. Tread lightly.
Honourable Mention - Will Bombur Get A Line?
Less than ten minutes into their mission we'd all got to know the individual members of the Fellowship; where they fit in the world, their general personality and, most importantly, their names. After five and half hours with the dwarves in The Hobbit we still don't know who the majority of them are (outside of Thorin, Balin and Kíli they're all pretty interchangeable). Sure, this is a recognised issue in the book as well, but on film it stands out more as a problem; heck, Bombur is still yet to get a line. That's right, the dwarve otherwise known as 'the one that did that barrel roll thing' has yet to say a word. Will Bombur finally get to open his mouth to do something other than burp in the final film? Only time will tell.
