Finally got a chance to watch this all the way through. Wow is all I have to say. Very seamless. Only once did I feel like I was watching a fan edit. That’s when Azog just suddenly appears after they escape the goblin tunnels. I get that he was sort of alluded to by the goblin king, but it just felt weird becuase you get get the sense that he’s a really important character from what the goblin king said, but we never get any reference to him before that. It like we get that he’s SUPPOSED to be an important character, but he doesn’t feel like one. I think it would have been better to just nix him entirely until the battle of five armies, at which point he would just be the leader of the Orc army. Watching the scene with this in mind, I feel there is definitely a way to cut that scene in a way where it appears to only be the wargs attacking them ala the books with no orcs at all.

That being said, that’s a very small complaint in an otherwise amazing edit and I understand you’re not looking to release a v2 or anything with such a small change, so if I find it really bugs me that much, I can always do an edit myself.

But seriously, high praise to you. This will be my go-to version of the Hobbit for the foreseeable future.