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Post #748518

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Erik Pancakes
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JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit: turning a mediocre trilogy into one really good film (Released)
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22-Jan-2015, 2:31 PM

Off the top of my head, from the extended editions of 1 and 2, I'd definitely include:

An Unexpected Journey

  • The small "feels like magic" exchange between Bilbo and Gandalf
  • Bilbo seeing the Shards of Narsil and talking to Elrond about staying in Rivendell
  • Bilbo and Thorin overhearing Gandalf and Elrond talking about the "strain of madness" in Thorin's bloodline


The Desolation of Smaug

  • Most of the added Beorn stuff, especially if he's featured more in the EE of Five Armies - of course, since I'd probably cut Dol Guldur and most (or all) of the White Council, I'd cut the Necromancer and Dol Guldur talk from these scenes
  • All of the extended Mirkwood scenes, including Gandalf's mention of a "dark enchantment" in the river
  • Bilbo vouching for Thorin in Laketown
  • The short bit of Bilbo, Balin and Thorin talking about the woods and birds that used to be on the hills by the Mountain


Other than that, I agree that most of the EE additions don't do much to help the film(s), but all of these seem very worthwhile to me, even for a single-film edit. (Plus, Bilbo is in all of these scenes, and is the focus of all except the Beorn and Mirkwood scenes, which, coupled with cutting out a bunch of extraneous crap, helps keep the focus on ... well ... the titular Hobbit.)