Stories from the set

When Thranduil almost notices Bilbo, you can see that he is wearing contact lenses.

When spiders attack the group in the forest, Bilbo Baggins puts on the ring and hears what the spiders are saying. At one point he takes off the ring but continues to hear the spiders.

In the scene at the 145th minute, Bilbo falls from a collapsing stone platform and rolls along the floor; during the final turn, it is noticeable that his sword bends from contact with the ground. It is clearly a "rubber" prop used for the falling stunts.

When Bilbo first runs into the Hall of Kings through the archway, Smaug knocks down the tapestries above it. In the next shot, Bilbo is already running far from them, away from the entrance.

When Smaug ignites the furnaces with his fiery breath, the wooden objects on the floor remain intact.

Legolas's clothing changes from scene to scene: in the Woodland Realm he wears elven armor, during the chase after the dwarves he wears a green cloak, then during the interrogation of an orc he is back in armor. When Legolas meets Tauriel, he is once again in the green cloak.

At 18-19 minutes, during the conversation between Gandalf and the werewolf, when the shots change from a close-up to a wide shot, differences in the set of the courtyard scene are visible, in particular: a fake goat is easily noticeable, which sometimes stands motionless, sometimes disappears, and then reappears; the little boar behind Gandalf is sometimes closer, sometimes farther; and approximately the same with the other inhabitants of the courtyard.

At the moment when Bilbo dumps out the barrels, there are 13 of them, but when Bard puts the barrels on his boat and makes them hide in them, there are 14.

The film is based on the novella by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien «The Hobbit, or There and Back Again» (The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, 1937).

Jeff Brophy appeared in the films «The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey» (2012) and «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» (2013) as Nori. And his son Sadwyn Brophy appeared as Eldarion in the film «The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King» (2003).