Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
This movie contains 26 potentially triggering events.
Reports of 27 animals (mainly sheep and goats) being malnourished, dying or starvation, drowned or exhausted on set. They were supposedly let off with a warning and weren’t investigated further by the AHA
About 55 mins in, they realise that two of the horses are missing. About a minute later two more horses are being carried by a troll and they are very unsettled. They were going to eat the horses but they are saved
About 48 mins in, it shows a wizard who loves animals walking around a forest and there are dead animals shown (they look very unrealistic) - it shows a fox, two rabbits and a bird. He then finds Sebastian the hedgehog who is injured. When he’s trying to heal him, it shows Sebastian’s family around him, who all look pretty realistic. Sebastian is then shown dying and is quickly brought back to life. About 1hr and 10 mins in, a sleigh being pulled by rabbits is being surrounded by wargs and orcs, but rabbits are fine. Lots of wargs (what the orcs are riding) are killed throughout
In the opening fight against the orcs, the Dwarf king is dramatically beheaded and held aloft in front of his grandson. Later, at least three goblins are decapitated onscreen.
In the opening attack on the Lonely Mountain, dwarves are caught under flying debris. In Goblin Town, a large boulder rolls over and crushes several goblins.
There are some falling scenes. Protagonists don't die but orcs surely. There are several situations where one of the main main threats is 'falling to one's death', but no main character actually dies from this.
There are flashback scenes of a city burning and it is implied that children died in this event but none of the children onscreen are shown to be harmed/killed
There is no actual possession but there is a scene where a wizard is performing a spell and it is visually similar to possession (his eyes roll back, it seems as though someone else is speaking through him, etc)
sometimes gollum saying "gollum" borders on gagging/coughing, and i think he drools at one point - but youre totally safe, sit back and enjoy the movie :)
The entire lore of the dwarves are based on Jews and their exile from their homeland. The dwarves are also described as greedy and gold loving, common antisemitic stereotypes. Tolkien would probably not be considered antisemitic as he was outspoken of his support for Jewish people, however his writing is still a product of it’s time.
One of the dwarves, Bombur, is very overweight and there are jokes made, of the slapstick variety- for instance, a table he’s sitting on collapses after someone throws him a sausage.
The dwarves could be seen as embodying antisemitic stereotypes and the overall plot/portrayal of Smaug could be seen as anti-Palestine. There’s also an overall lack of representation, as is sadly common for Middle Earth.