I am planning a new book edit and I am planning to base it on Kerr’s edit but with differences.
The title wont be the same as this thread’s title I have yet to come up with a name for it!
The main changes I plan to make are shifting the reforging of Narsil to its rightful place in the story just before the fellowship leave Rivendell Yes this creates an issue as Aragorn is obviously seen with the other sward from Rivendell to Dunharrow, but we will have to assume that he has put it away and is just using the other sward until then, sorry its the only thing I can do. Maybe one day someone can digitally replace Aragorn’s sward from Rivendell to Dunharrow with Narsil?
Next is changing where Aragorn looks into the Palantír to Dunharrow also, as this is of course closer to the book and follows what the ‘Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Feanor Edition’ does (I will actually be asking permission to use the shots from that edits scene for my edit as I want it as is and cant recreate it any other way myself).
I will be making some other changes too but I will post them later in the editing stages.
The edit wont end up being fully ready for a few months, as I need some new editing software for a final version, but I will be making a rough cut in the mean time and will make that available when its ready. The final cut will eventually be fully HD, but the rough cut will be SD only.
Im making this more for myself as Kerr’s edits were very good but lacking in a few things that I wanted to see, this may mean its not strictly a book edit in some places, but holding as true to the original story as possible with maybe some extra film bits that Kerr never included that also may not have been in the book, these will be minor though.
I also wanted a sort of book cut that is in full HD which I hope by the time Im done eventually it will be.
I am toying with an idea regarding the rings verse at the beginning. I don’t want to just copy Kerr’s edit on this even if a lot of my edit will be almost the same set of cuts ect.
My plan is to use bits of Cate Blanchet talking about the rings from the prologue with pictures from it. I want to edit it so it sounds like she is saying the verse, of course there is some bits she doesn’t say and the lines won’t read quite the same, eg instead of “Three rings for elven kings under the sky” she says “three were given to the elves, imortal, wisest and fairest of all people”. Now she says the world rings earlier in the prologue, so I’m thinking she could say “Three rings to the elves, imortal, wisest and fairest of all people” over the scene ofor the elves getting their rings.
Similar will be done with the dwaves and the nine kings of men. It will be trickier doing the line about the one for the dark lord ect, but I’m thinking the line that is actually written on the ring I could take from Gandalf talking to Frodo in Bag End. Not sure about the last line yet I will have to think of something later, unless anyone else has any ideas?