…Yet even in the face of this certain doom, hope swoops unlooked-for from above in the form of the Great Eagles and their lord, who, with wings beating flames in the faces of their enemies and talons flashing, send Orc and Warg alike plunging into the abyss and sweep Bilbo and his companions to safety.
The scene from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been captured by Weta Workshop concept designer Nick Keller who has been with Weta for seven years and was part of the core team of Weta designers who worked on the movie.
- Dimensions: 11.7" x 23.2" / 29.7 cm x 59 cm (H x W)
- The images shown are of a digital file. The main image is watermarked with Weta details (this is not on the actual print).
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY : ART PRINT – OUT OF THE FIRE – EAGLES RESCUE
Having eluded their Goblin captors and been lead to daylight by the
Wizard, Gandalf, the Company of Thorin now find themselves perched like birds
amid the boughs of dry pine trees clinging to the jagged mountain slopes.
Pursued relentlessly by the pale Orc chieftain Azog, the Dwarves, Gandalf and
Bilbo Baggins are surrounded by vicious, snapping Wargs who hurl themselves at
the splintering trees. Amid shattering wood and the pop and twist of groaning
roots the trees are toppled, one by one, forcing the Company to leap from one
precarious perch to another another, finally coming to dangle beyond the yawning
cliff over a hungry and empty sky.
Thinking quickly, Gandalf ignites pines cones which the Dwarves send
hurtling down upon their foes like fiery missiles. But this desperate act is a
mere tactic of delay, for without help, whether by tooth, fall or flame, they
know death awaits them all in the leering pale Orc’s grin. He has
them!
Yet even in the face of this certain doom, hope swoops unlooked-for from
above in the form of the Great Eagles and their lord, who, with wings beating
flames in the faces of their enemies and talons flashing, send Orc and Warg
alike plunging into the abyss and sweep Bilbo and his companions to
safety…