What Ever Happened To The Final LEGO The Hobbit Game?

To coincide with the release of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug movie, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released the LEGO The Hobbit video game, which told the stories of the first two The Hobbit movies in LEGO form. With the game’s release came teases of the third movie’s story being introduced via DLC. However, The Battle of the Five Armies, the final chapter of Bilbo Baggins’ adventures in Middle Earth, never made its to the way to the LEGO video game world. Just what exactly happened to the third and final piece of the LEGO The Hobbit trilogy?

LEGO The Hobbit was not the first of Tolkien’s works to be rebuilt by Traveller’s Tales, the development studio behind the LEGO video games. A LEGO The Lord of the Rings trilogy adaptation was also released in 2013. This similarly followed the story of the first Peter Jackson Tolkien movie trilogy, albeit with a more family-friendly and spoofed version of events.

But while LEGO The Lord of the Rings concluded its trilogy’s story, LEGO The Hobbit did not get the same luxury. LEGO The Hobbit simply ended with the same cliffhanger as The Desolation of Smaug, with the party of Thorin Oakenshield having riled up the very disgruntled dragon Smaug, causing him to leave his gold-laden lair to wreak havoc on the people of Lake Town. And, sadly, that will be where the adventures end. Despite earlier teases of such a DLC, Warner Bros. said in a statement to GameSpot that, “There are no plans to develop DLC based on the final film of the trilogy.”

LEGO The Hobbit’s Cliffhanger Ending Will Never Be Resolved

Nobody other than the powers at Warner Bros. and Traveller’s Tales actually knows for sure why the LEGO The Battle of the Five Armies DLC never came to be. It is not just the LEGO The Hobbit DLC that was a casualty of this mysterious halt in development, either. On January 1, 2019, LEGO The Hobbit and LEGO The Lord of the Rings were removed from digital storefronts. Then, in 2020, both LEGO Tolkien games suddenly returned with no notice, adding more confusion to the situation.

There has been plenty of speculation about the removal of LEGO The Hobbit and LEGO The Lord of the Rings from stores. Most theories conclude the games may not have had the legal rights to use the voice acting from the films. LEGO The Lord of the Rings was the first LEGO title to take dialogue directly from its movie source, rather than having original vocals recorded, like in LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes – a trend that continued with the release of LEGO The Hobbit. But since the games are now available again, this may not be the reason, after all. Either way, this hasn’t changed the fact that there is still no word from Warner Bros. about the final DLC in the LEGO The Hobbit trilogy.

For the completionists out there, this is unfortunately one itch that will never be abled to be scratched. LEGO The Hobbit will forever live on as a game that has no true ending – just a cliffhanger of fantastical proportions. Those poor, poor residents of Lake Town, who will be forever stuck in an uncertain, dragon-threatened limbo…

Source: GameSpot

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