Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, which was released in December 2013, is the second installment in the director’s planned film trilogy, which means that its ending is not as “final” as audiences would like it to be. There’s plenty more story to tell and we’ll have to wait until this December for the trilogy’s finale, There And Back Again, to hit theaters to finally find out exactly how this tale with end.

But in the meantime, this middle segment leaves itself ripe for the picking for the folks over at “How It Should Have Ended,” who give us short cartoon renditions of live-action films revealing how they really should have ended. Their endings typically make much more sense than the originals, and are quite entertaining.

Check out the video here below for How The Desolation Of Smaug Should Have Ended, and be on the lookout for guest appearances.

The first movie in the trilogy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, is out now on Extended Edition Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, and DVD.

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