“The Desolation of Smaug” is actually the place on the map. It’s that part of the world under his grasp where he has destroyed the land. If you look on the Tolkien map, you will see it.
My complaint with the movie was that this great and terrible creature which could not be overcome and had taken over Erebor at the height of its power was taken head-on by a rag-tag band of wandering dwarfs. For good reason, it didn’t happen that way in the book and it shouldn’t have happened that way in the movie. The scene with Smaug was better in the cartoon where he was the great and terrible beast.
Those were my thoughts exactly when I saw the movie. I didn’t mind Jackson making stuff up that might have been going on outside the scope of the book but the direct change to the story line put me off.
I remember seeing that cartoon in 1983 in Christian school. Do you remember the name? I remember it being epic heh.
That scene reminded me of a Three Stooges movie it was so ridiculous.
Movie with the cool sounding title has a shot at making some cash.