emanswfan said:

Maybe we'll get Evangeline down to New Zealand, shoot a bunch of stuff, chop it up and put it into a box set.

I'm certain they are joking, but disturbing if they aren't.

He already semi-joked about adding the deleted Sauron-v-Aragorn slugfest back in to ROTK on a future anniversary boxset on that film's commentary years ago.

I say why not?! Unlike Lucas he's already given us the theatrical cuts in HD (They're on my shelf right next to the EE BRs), so anything else is just a bonus, not a replacement. Tauriel in LOTR Super-EE? Sure I'd be down for that.

btw, I don't even want the Theatrical-Cuts of The Hobbit, as so far (I can't speak for 5 Armies yet) they feel like incomplete versions of the "proper" EEs. The shorter LOTR movies were valid versions in their own right with no wierd plot-holes and such.