Going Helm's Deep: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Part 1

Going Helm's Deep: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Part 1

The TFS Staff
Going Helm's Deep

Alejandra (@Sick__66), Sam (@SamShotFirst), Harrison (@Play_Champion), Rockie (@RockieWarAntz), and Marcelo (@MarceloJPico) talk the first half of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. They talk spiders, Legolas, Tauriel, a hot skin-changer, and, of course, The Barrel Chase Sequence!

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