r/TheHobbit

Hi everyone!

I’ve always felt that Dain Ironfoot’s arrival at the Battle of Five Armies deserves a heavy, unrelenting musical backdrop that captures the raw grit and stubborn power of the Iron Hills dwarves.

To bring this to life, I focused on a powerful arrangement driven by heavy bagpipes, massive war stomps, and a gritty marching rhythm. My goal was to avoid overly modern or synthetic sounds and instead channel that authentic, ancient dwarven battle energy.

The track is titled DAIN IRONFOOT: Battle of Five Armies | Heavy Bagpipes & Stomps.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the atmosphere and how well you think it fits the Tolkien lore. If you enjoy the vibe, the link above will take you to the full video.

Baruk Khazâd! 🪓

I am like 20 minutes into the third movie and I'm just confused.

First of all, WHY did they drag this out into a trilogy. This could've been wrapped in two movies. The first one was such a nothing burger. Then the second is literally called THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG and they STILL DON'T FIGHT THE DRAGON. 4 hours of buildup and we just get to see smaug wake up from a nap before the sequel ends. Then in the THIRD movie he's dead in FIVE MINUTES!!!

and this detail made me so irrationally angry but WHYYY did Baggins use that ring so stupidly?? You literally have a magical tool that turns you invisible and you decide to take if off in the presence of a DRAGON?? just kept running around and conversing with the monster that destroyed a whole kingdom when he could've just stayed invisible and GRABBED THE FREAKING STONE!!! Same with the spiders. You have these giant spiders trying to kill you and your friends and you take the ring off BEFORE you've freed them all?? He could've killed those eight legged freaks if he just USED THE RING WISELY. why TF did he take it off at the worst moments?

Also how powerful are the wizards supposed to be? I'm not familiar with the books so I don't know the lore. I just don't understand why Gandalf's solution everytime they got into trouble was to run for their lives. I know he summoned those eagles when the orcs had them cornered on the edge of that cliff but he was just hanging there while they waited for them. Then when he encountered the necromancer and found the missing dwarf king, he suddenly had powers?? They didn't help much there but something like that wouldve been useful when the dwarves kept getting into trouble. The wizards seem to have more wisdom than magic.

Anyways those are just some thoughts I had to get out. I still have like 2 hours to go on War of Five Armies so we'll see what happens. So far I think the elves look really cool and I quite like Bard. Really tired of seeing these orcs on my screen though. Just boring and ugly.