3. Gandalf The Great Fighter
One of the best things about The Return of the King is that after two films of being wise and turning up precisely when he means to, Gandalf finally has to fight in a battle. And if you, like me, found a strange amount of pleasure in watching Ian McKellen kick ass, then Desolation is going to be fun. It looks like he's got plenty of action with all the added stuff Jackson has put it as Gandalf and Radagast investigate Dol Guldur and the Necromancer, even if we're not sure yet how much of a role the Necromancer will play in the Hobbit. Either way, Gandalf looks like he gets much more fighting to do in this latest instalment. Watching an elderly guy bash the cr*p out of people with a staff is always going to be fun, and when Gandalf gets going, beard majestically whirring through the air, eyebrows bristling, roaring out iconic lines, there's really little not to love.