The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies first teaser trailer has been released featuring our first official footage from director Peter Jackson’s final Hobbit film.

Late Sunday night Peter Jackson released a 15-second sneak peek for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies teaser and announced that the film’s first teaser trailer would premiere today. Now the first official teaser trailer has been released and features some epic battle sequences.

Director Peter Jackson had revealed that The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ teaser trailer would premiere soon, and we finally got our first look at Comic-Con 2014 where he released the first teaser for the final Hobbit film. Read the teaser’s description from what we saw at the panel during SDCC ’14.

The studio has also released a new The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies poster featuring Bilbo kneeling down with his sword Sting:

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While we won’t be getting the full trailer until October, we’re excited to see the first footage of The Battle of the Five Armies in today’s new teaser trailer.

Director Peter Jackson attended Comic-Con ’14 and was even able to make his way down to the floor with the fans without being noticed. That’s because he, like many other celebs, dressed up in a costume so that fans wouldn’t be the wiser.

Check out The Hobbit director dressed as the wicked looking Evil Jester at SDCC ’14, making his way through the crowds as they haven’t a clue that the brilliant director is less than a few feet away from them. Some fans even stopped to ask him if he’d take a picture with them because of his costume, not because of who he was, which had to be a new experience for the incredibly famous director.

We look forward to seeing the aftermath of Smaug’s Laketown attack, and more importantly the Battle of the Five Armies, which refers to the fight between the Goblins and the Wargs against the Men of Dale, the Elves, the Dwarves, the Eagles and a Shape-shifter.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies release date is set for December 17, 2014.