IT ALL TIES TOGETHER

Moviegoers may remember the scene in Balin’s tomb from the first “Lord of the Rings” movie vie in which one of the hobbits accidentally knocks a skeleton eleton of a dwarf holding a book down a well.

Since that film is set 60 years after the events in “The Hobbit” trilogy, it’ss only now revealed whose remains they were. “That skeleton is actually Ori, played by actor Adam Brown,” Jackson told the News. “Which I find hilarious because we didn’t have a clue ue when we were filming the first one.”

Toward the end of the movie, Orlando Bloom’s Legolas gets some marching orders from his kingly father: go and keep an eye on a promising young ranger.

That human’s name? Strider, the hero played by Viggo Mortensen in “Lord of the Rings.”

During the epic fight between Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) and the nefarious Necromancer, she uses the same magical light that she gives Frodo in “Fellowship of the Ring.”

“I don’t know if the fans will notice but she banishes him with the light of Eärendil,” says co-screenwriter Philippa Boyens, which is what she gives to Frodo when she says, ‘Let it be a light for you in dark places when all other lights go out.’ And I think it’s kind of cool because she knows its power, since she had to use it.”