From armies crunching together to individual characters settling their differences, closure is satisfyingly noisy. There's barely any dialogue for the last third of the film, just steel on steel, garnished with more elfen parkour than you could shake a wizard's staff at. Yet you can't claim to feel short-changed: we're promised a battle, and battles we get. Still, compared to the interminable false endings of "The Return of the King", "Five Armies" is relatively compact. However, if that were strictly true, Bard's name would be Board - Luke Evans does his best but Aragorn he ain't. Comparing vocabulary and grammar in fairy tales with modern language. Stream songs including Fire and Water, Shores of the Long Lake and more. Incidentally, his name actually is Lickspittle, proving along with Grima Wormtongue that nominative determinism is alive and well in Middle-earth. Listen to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Special Edition by Howard Shore on Apple Music. The bad guys are a swirly thing in the sky, a couple of interchangeable video game sprites and a painfully unfunny lickspittle who just keeps turning up again and again long after his cowardly schtick wore off precisely one film ago. Yet despite this range of characters, there's a strange lack of compelling villains.
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