First Photos: Hobbit II And III

A week out from the release of "The Hobbit: An Expected Journey" and EW has posted the first photos from both the second and third films in the upcoming Hobbit film series.

The photo from the second film, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" indicates that the key events of the second half of the book, and the dragon Smaug. Co-writer Philippa Boyens says "The dragon is a huge, wonderful, amazing part of the story, but it doesn’t end there."

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug will open December 13th, 2013.

So what happens in the third film? The Battle of the Five Armies as well as Luke Evans as Bard the Bowman and Orlando Bloom as Legolas. Here they are in the third film "The Hobbit: There and Back Again".

The Hobbit: There and Back Again will open July 18th, 2014.