History Tearjerker / TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies

* When the Company watches Smaug wreak destruction upon Laketown, the devastated looks on their faces says it all. They all know that this is their fault, but there's absolutely nothing they can do to make up for it, except to listen to the people's cries for help and watch the town fall into ruin.

** Ori was born decades after Erebor's fall, and unlike Kili and Fili he probably didn't grow up listening to first-hand stories of the disaster. Seeing what was happening to Laketown was perhaps the first time he fully grasped what terror all those long-roasted dwarven corpses in Erebor had gone through.

** Back in ''An Unexpected Journey'', Thorin declared he would take the Company over an army of the Iron Hills. Now he treats his friends like servants and waits for the army from the Iron Hills to take by force what he lays claim over.

** The mortified looks on the dwarves' faces when Thorin orders Bilbo thrown from the ramparts just seals the deal. They look at Thorin like they don't know him anymore.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEiLJ5YZesk&t=1m18s A deleted segment,]] not even 20 seconds long, gives us Gandalf helping Thranduil realize that he fucked up royally. This happens just after Thranduil was ready to kill Tauriel and Legolas stands between them.

* Bilbo saying goodbye to the dwarves, particularly when he says [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments they can come to Bag End anytime]].

* Although many people are more than happy to have him dead, many fans of [[DracoInLeatherPants Smaug]] were upset to see the magnificent dragon die very early on into the movie. Especially when you consider he's the last "great" dragon. Evil though he were, there was a little less magic in the world without him.

* Another HarsherInHindsight moment: The acorn that Bilbo shows Thorin over in the film's SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments is implied to be the future Party Tree, the beautiful oak tree that Bilbo plants, takes care of, and watches grow. The same tree that Sharkey's men cut down during the Scouring of the Shire in ''Return of the King''--Sam plants a mallorn tree to replace it, but the oak tree is gone. And they don't even cut it down for lumber or kindling--[[ForTheEvulz just because they can]].

** Thorin's reaction also rather falls into this considering his sickness has already progressed so far that he's staring obsessively back at the mountain rather than to the town where both his nephews are in equal danger.

** This penultimate scene is a tearjerker in hindsight. You might have at least expected a scene of Bilbo enjoying his house after all the crap he's gone through and all the talk of home. However the town took Bilbo for dead and auctioned off most of the contents of his house. It's a rather somber scene for Bilbo and the audience, who probably didn't expect the conclusion of Middle-Earth on the silver screen to simply be an empty house.
** Like ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'', it can be a reference to returning from UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, only to find everyone acting normal, and nobody cares or understands what you've been though.

* The final scene becomes this once you realize that by the time it takes place, not only are Thorin, Fíli and Kíli dead, but so are Bard, his children, Balin, Ori and Óin, and possibly Tauriel. Oh, and ''Lord of the Rings'' with all its [[TearJerker/TheLordOfTheRings tragedy]] is just around the corner.
** A bit of comfort, but Bard and his children might still be alive, Bard doesn't seem to be that old, and the Hobbit takes place "only" 60 years before Lord of the Rings, so while slightly unlikely he might just be pushing 90 and his kids only in their 70s.

* Fíli's death. Azog holds him up in front of Kíli, Thorin, Dwalin, and Bilbo and taunts them while Fíli pleads helplessly before being run through and unceremoniously thrown off a cliff, landing at his brother's feet.