See Peter Jackson's sketch for the epic final battle sequence for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies!

Entertainment Weekly has released a really fascinating drawing that has the entire epic final battle for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies all drawn out. This epic finale is being reported to have a length of 45 minutes which is a long time for a battle scene so you know that there is going to be a lot going on. While talking to Entertainment Weekly Peter Jackson touched on the scale of the attack and how it was approached as well as the logistics of bringing such a large battle to the screen.

"There’s a lot of logistics that have to be thought through. We have dwarves and men and elves and orcs, all with different cultures, with different weapons, and different shields and patterns and tactics."

"Before we could loose the first arrow, we had to design the landscape itself and figure out, ‘Okay, if we have 10,000 orcs, how much room are they going to take up?’‘Are they going to fill up the valley or look like a speck?’ Then we could start drawing the arrows on the schematics."

"We have a rule that we’re not allowed to go more than two or three shots of anonymous people fighting without cutting back to our principal characters. Otherwise the audience just ends up with battle fatigue."

I have loved all of the Middle Earth films and this is one film and scene that I am really excited about. This is the moment that everything has been building up to.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies will be in theaters on December 17, 2014.
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Source: Entertainment Weekly