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I’ve had this posted over at FE for a few days, so i figured I’d see if there’s any interest over here.
After posing the question of whether the Lord of the Rings movies can be pared down to 2 hrs. a piece, I got very intrigued by the idea. In dire need of a break from George Lucas’ universe, I decided to play in Tolkien’s for a bit.
The idea with these is to only include relevant information, and make them darker and more action oriented. I’m a fan of the movies, but I don’t always feel like watching a 3 hr. + version of them. As far as the story, nothing’s that different but I’ve made some special modifications to fix some things that I personally don’t like.
Some major changes:
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New titles (The Third Age: The Shadow of the Ring, The Shadow Grows, and The War of the Shadow.)
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Shortened just about every scene to its bare essentials.
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Different prologue narration by Gandalf (Taken from The Third Age video game.)
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Removed Arwen’s chase scene.
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Removed Faramir from the films entirely.
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Put the focus more on Aragorn than the Hobbits.
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Remove Eowyn/Aragorn pseudo-romance.
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Remove Aragorn falling off the cliff.
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Have Frodo not lose himself to the Ring’s will when he reaches Mt. Doom.
And tons of other stuff, that’s just the major changes. I’m going to release them all at the same time next month with commentary tracks.
Discuss! 😃
