Legolas Is Back In First THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Trailer; Plus New Images

Orlando Bloom returns as Legolas in the first trailer for New Line Cinema’s and MGM’s fantasy adventure THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG.

Now that’s a Dragon! STAR TREK’s Benedict Cumberbatch is Smaug and Evangeline Lilly is playing a new character – the Woodland Elf, Tauriel. Her name means ‘daughter of Mirkwood’.

The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG continues the adventures of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG opens nationwide on Friday December 13, 2013. The final chapter, THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN, will hit theaters on December 17, 2014.

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RICHARD ARMITAGE as Thorin Oakenshield.

MARTIN FREEMAN as the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

EVANGELINE LILLY as Tauriel.

IAN MCKELLEN as Gandalf.

The character Azog.

LUKE EVANS as Bard.