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Earlier today, the teaser trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, the final installment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit film trilogy, arrived online.

Now, a new character poster has been released that features the titular hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) with his sword Sting in hand and on one knee with head down undoubtedly bracing for the war to come, the war that dwarf leader Thorin Oakenshield demands.

Check out the full poster here below.

At the WB panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, attendees got to see the world premiere of the trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, the final installment of The Hobbit film trilogy (read our coverage of the panel here). A tiny, tiny tease of the trailer was posted online, but now finally the full teaser trailer has been released for all to see!

Watch the teaser trailer here below.

This week, actor and fan favorite Benedict Cumberbatch made his first appearance at the Geek mecca San Diego Comic-Con, where he took part in panels for two of his upcoming films: the DreamWorks animated movie, Penguins of Madagascar, where he voices a wolf, and of course, The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, where does the voice and motion-capture performance for two characters – the Necromancer and the dragon Smaug.

Along with speaking on panels, Cumberbatch also stopped to pose with the LEGO dragon Smaug at the WB booth. Check out photos here below of the actor standing with the LEGO creation, which was made out of 83,433 LEGO bricks. Also below are photos from his various panel appearances that we attended, as well as some photos courtesy of the actor at the WB booth.

As fans awaited the Warner Brothers panel for The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies at San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H today, the massive screens began to play scenes from Peter Jackson‘s Lord Of The Rings trilogy and the two released Hobbit film. This segued right into video of Stephen Colbert on the set of The Hobbit where he played a Laketown spy and his wife and children also had cameo, and we got to see their cameos, as well as an extended scene with Peter Jackson acting silly.

Soon after, more video was soon, including a lengthy blooper reel, but then Colbert came out to moderate wearing his Laketown spy attire. Then, Peter Jackson finally appeared on stage with members of the cast, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood, Evangeline Lilly, Andy Serkis, and Luke Evans.