Will you follow me... one last time?

Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, greed, war.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Gulliver's Travels (2010)E8/E9/E12 · rare rung · prejudice, war
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)E8/E9/E12 · rare rung · prejudice, war
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)E8/E9/E12 · rare rung · prejudice, war
Casshern (2004)E8/E9/E12 · rare rung · prejudice, war
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)E8/E12 · rare rung · prejudice, war
The Great Dictator (1940)E8/E12 · rare rung · prejudice, warThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Shared director or cast.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)dir. Peter Jackson
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)dir. Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)dir. Peter Jackson
The Three Musketeers (2011)Luke Evans
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)Benedict Cumberbatch
Crisis (2021)Evangeline Lilly