‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Event: Visit Middle Earth with our Video and Photos

Peter Jackson and part of the fantastic cast of ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ (in theaters December 13), including Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, and Luke Evans brought a piece of Middle Earth to Los Angeles.

The ‘Book of New Zealand’ is the world’s biggest pop-up book installed on-site at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to celebrate the world premiere of anticipated sequel. It featured original sets and effects from ‘The Hobbit’ Trilogy, representing four of the principal filming locations and the featured New Zealand landscapes.

Enjoy our videos and photos from the precious exhibition, plus a display showing some of the customes seen on the film.

“From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” the second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The three films tell a continuous story set in Middle-earth 60 years before “The Lord of the Rings,” which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar®-winning “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on an epic quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.”

‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ is in 3D and 2D in select theaters and IMAX on December 13.