The Hobbit director Peter Jackson liveblogs the last day of the movie's shoot

Movie buffs, you wouldn’t want to miss this chance. Ace director Peter Jackson is currently live-blogging the final day of shooting of The Hobbit trilogy. Jackson is using his Facebook page to put up real-time updates, including behind-the-scene photographs to inform fans on what’s going down on the last day of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug shoot.

The movie’s production began two years ago and is the second in the trilogy series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 Novel of the same name. The series started off with the first movie in 2012 called The Unexpected Journey and will conclude in 2014 with There and Back Again.

The Hobbit director takes you behind-the-scenes

Jackson has been pretty prolific on his Facebook page, keeping his fans in sync with how the movie is progressing and with the last day of the shoot coming up, has decided to spend whatever time he isn’t shooting, by liveblogging scenes from behind the sets. In the past month or so, Jackson has written goodbye posts to Martin Freeman, who plays Bilbo Baggins, Orlando Bloom who’s essaying the role of Legolas and even Ian McKellan, playing the wise Gandalf.

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Since the shoot is taking place in Wellington, New Zealand, it is already half-way through. Jackson posted his first update at about 1AM IST.  At the time of publishing, Jackson’s last post was about a couple of hours ago that the crew had broken for lunch and has a long day ahead.

All you Lord of the Rings fans can head on to Peter Jackson’s Facebook page and catch up on the rest of the last day’s shoot of The Desolation of Smaug. To watch the movie, though, you might have to wait till December.