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Post #1373864

Author
Hal 9000
Parent topic
Kerr's 'Lord Of The Rings' Fan Edits, Extended Editions by Hal9000/Sharkey (Released)
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Date created
8-Sep-2020, 11:54 PM

Well, if I ever do get to try it, here are my initial thoughts:

Remove 49 minutes from the Maple Films Hobbit edit

Begin with the Maple Films version, trimming further as inspired by the 3hr Spence edit and 2hr Fiona Van Dahl cut.

Loose ideas

  • Include visual montage of backstory during the fireside song
  • Remove pocket handkerchief gag in favor of beginning the traveling montage
  • Dwarves go along with “they’re infected” right away
  • Probably remove Gandalf and Elrond conversation at night setting up white council and dragon sickness
  • Mute Thorin saying Bilbo has no place amongst them
  • Experiment with reintroducing the flashback that introduces Azog
  • Perhaps include the EE two-by-two Beorn scene
  • Trim Gimli reference and Bilbo versus baby spider
  • They don’t get into fish barrels, just show up already in them
  • Cut down the Master and Alfrid more, but be mindful not to go too far
  • The dwarves do not enter the mountain before Smaug exits
  • Bard shouldn’t go to jail and can just spring into action
  • Search the subtitles for ‘dragon sickness’ to kill all but the briefest allusions to the idea
  • Maybe don’t even show Bilbo leave and give the arkenstone away, letting it be revealed to us as it is to Thorin
  • Add a subtitle comma to the Azog line that was missing one