The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is the second film in an enormous trilogy dedicated to turning J.R.R. Tolkien’s shortest Middle-earth novel into the rough equivalent of his longest. The original story of a humble Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, who joined a party of glory-seeking dwarves as their unlikely burglar, was a brisk, fast-paced adventure filled with momentum, urgency, and a lot less sightseeing…
How far has the fire spread?
