Much may have been amde about the decision to expand The Hobbit, one of Tolkien's slimmer if no less beloved volumes, into another trilogy of movies mirroring the more complex and wide-spanning Lord of the Rings. However let's not kid ourselves that Peter Jackson won't deliver on the sheer spectacle when the second Hobbit chapter, The Desolation of Smaug, opens at the end of the year.
The trailer for the film debuted this evening and should whet the appetite nicely - even if there's another six months to wait...
