Bellow, you can watch the recorded version of a livestream The Hobbit events could watch yesterday. The celebration was happening at four cities worldwide at the same time – Wellington, Los Angeles, New York and London (that’s where Lee was), and fans could watch the event live on youtube.

Here are some of the highlights if you don’t have an hour to watch the entire video:
• New sneak peek has been released! Click here to watch it.
• Lee and Orlando both showed some nice dance moves. Check them out here.
• Peter Jackson’s production blog video includes some funny scenes with Lee. Watch it here.
• ashwin911 was a part of the audience in London and kindly shared a short video recorded in theatre. You should give it a look.

Also, Ed Sheeran’s I See Fire video was shown at the event. The song was written for the closing credits of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. “We have a tradition in our Tolkien films of having a song over the closing credits. It’s very important that the song feels right for the world of the movie – and also carries the emotional resonance of the end of that particular film,” Peter commented. Ed wrote the song right after watching the movie, so he could write from the perspective of the audience. You can pre-order it on iTunes.

Lee Pace is featured as Thranduil in a new batch of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug posters shared on facebook.

Badass! Don’t forget Lee’s in London today to promote the movie, and we’ll be able to watch the Q&A live at 2pm PT / 5pm ET.

Just a little over a month left until Lee’s next movie comes out, and we have a new still from it. In the newest photo from The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug we can see Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel, and Lee Pace as Thranduil.

More movie stills and a full interview with Evangeline can be seen here.

We have the first look at Lee Pace as Thranduil the Elvenking in The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug official 2014 calendar.

Pre-order your copy of the 2014 The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug Wall Calendar today.

Also, Warner Bros. released the third TV spot for the second film of the Hobbit trilogy earlier today. Advance tickets will be on sale November 21, 2013.

“Hi everyone, I’m Lee Pace,” the actor introduces himself in a new facebook exclusive video. The Hobbit page passed 3 million followers mark recently, and two of the cast members, Lee Pace and Luke Evans (Bard the Bowman), recorded a sweet video to thank their supporters.

Warner Bros. has released two TV spots for the upcoming The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug movie.

As promised, we were given a new trailer for the second film of The Hobbit trilogy, coming to theaters on December 13, 2013.

In The Desolation Of Smaug we are going to continue following the journey of young Bilbo Baggins, who’s travelling with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield. New characters we’ll get to see this winter are Lee Pace as the Elvenking, Thranduil (this time we’ll get more than just a 5 seconds scene); Luke Evans as Bard the Bowman, Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel, and Orlando Bloom as Legolas.

Update: We have a new video of Lee Pace and Luke Evans presenting a trailer. Watch the hilarious duo here.

Before a new trailer’s premiere that is happening tomorrow, October 1st, at 6am PT / 9am ET, Warner Bros. unveiled two new banners, one of them featuring Lee. “Lee Pace is the Elvenking, Thranduil, in TheHobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” the Hobbit production team tweeted an hour ago, enclosing an amazing shot.

The second banner shows Martin Freeman as the young Bilbo, accompanied by Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield, Aidan Turner as Kili, Dean O’Gorman as Fili, and Graham McTavish as Dwalin, who are trying to cut through the spiders’ webs.

The second installment of Peter Jackson’s prequel is going to hit the cinemas this December.

Some of the Hobbit cast members have already left the set, but most of the actors are still busy training and making sure we will never forget the upcoming films. Peter Jackson officially announced the cast will NOT attend Comic Con International in San Diego this year, because there is still so much left to be done. In his latest video he shared on facebook, he showed us around the set and we were given a sneak peek of the preparations for some scenes. Lee Pace is briefly in the video, but it’s still very worth watching – see yourself why.

As we previously reported, Lee’s been featured in the August issue of Empire (on newsstands now). The 13 pages long article takes us to New Zealand, which is currently full of dwarfs, elves and hobbits. The cast is slowly wrapping though. Peter Jackson yesterday shared on his facebook: “A day after saying goodbye to Gandalf and Tauriel, it was time to farewell Legolas. What a great day it was, with Orlando battling a serious Orc for all 12 hours of shooting – part of the Battle of the 5 Armies for the third Hobbit movie.”
The article also features the first The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug promotional image of Lee Pace as Thranduil, posing with a sword that has been made from a single piece of metal, with the handle carved into it.

Jackson tells Empire that “Thranduil has a contempt of his own for what is going on out there.”
“The delightful Lee Pace welcomes Empire into his trailer with a warm smile, high praise for the magazine’s ongoing coverage of The Hobbit and the offer of herbal tea,” Empire shares. Lee told them he sees Legolas’ father as “the same way that a tiger in a jungle is a dangerous thing” and admitted he has taken overnight hikes into the New Zealand wildness to get into an elven headspace. “In his realm, you are at his mercy,” he muses. “There is a simplicity to that. That corrupted forest (Mirkwood) is very much a reflection of who he is.” Talking about his inspirations, has called upon Oberon and The Fisher King.
“We should mention he is 3,000 years old,” Empire reminds us, “something of a mind-bogging concept for Pace.” The actor who plays the Elvenking comments: “He’s incredibly old but incredibly sensitive. It’s like he’s taken too many naps.”
“And yet he has a reputation of being the greatest fighter in the Middle Earth. His threat, thinks Pace, imposes interesting things on this movie. “He doesn’t readily choose to use his force.” The question arises of what will stir him out of his splendid, dragon-like isolation,” the journalist nicely concludes.

As Orlando Bloom says: “The elves always steal the show. In the best way.”

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Magazine Scans > Empire (August 2013)