Parents guide

A woman kisses her Dead love

A man disguises himself as a woman with an exaggeratedly stuffed chest.

Over the Orcs crossed the carriage that ripped off their limbs.

Trolls are shredded into bloody chunks by a chariot that has blades on the wheels. The chunks go flying onto the ice. (This is only in the extended version.)

A bunch of decapitations throughout the movie.

An elf impales a handful of orcs on the horns of his reindeer. He then slashes the orcs off of the horns.

The theatrical version has moderate violence and gore. The extended version is more severe.

The opening sequence is of Smaug attacking a town with fire. Buildings burn down, many people get torched. Some are seen falling out of windows. This entire sequence is very intense but as usual not gory.

Slashing, stabbing, spearing, firing arrows

Some battle Trolls are controlled by their eyelids having their eyelids being violently yanked to control them.

An orc is briefly decapitated by a dwarf, and a small amount of blood mist floats from its neck (this scene is a split second, but it's clear what happens).

A large troll is peppered with arrows before it falls dead. No blood is present.

Bastard is used once. (Twice in the Extended Cut)

One use of bastard, two uses of bugger, one use of hell (in the phrase "hounds of hell"), and one utterance of "sod off".

Some name calling, such as "piece of filth" and others occur.

Gandalf can be seen smoking his pipe and preparing to smoke it (packing tobacco into the bowl).

Wine is consumed in a couple of scenes

The ending is very depressing

Being the final installment, it is very emotional throughout.

There is a confrontation early on in the film between a few characters and one omnipotent being. A powerful character changes their personality, voice and appearance to seem empowering and intimidating is featured during this confrontation. This transition is very sudden and does look very scary at first. This character has appeared in The Lord of the Rings using this power. Young audiences may be spooked out by this, however this only lasts for about 30 seconds.

Were Worms might scare some, shown for a very short time.

Smaug the dragon could be seen as quite scary by young audiences. He threatens to kill a boy who is the son of one of the main characters.

A character changes mentally throughout, becoming quite intimidating and does shout and rage to a few characters, very young audiences may get scared by this, as this character is good and heroic in the previous entries.

Two war animals are killed by Orcs during the final battle: one gets shot with arrows, the other gets thrust with multiple spears. This will be emotional for any animal lover, as they are briefly upsetting.

Sauron's new appearance might be scary to Young Audience.