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I’m generally a fan of the Jackson’s trilogy and aside from a few awkward or un-Tolkien-esque moments, I don’t think it needs nearly as much fixing as the Star Wars Prequels or Sequels do. I like Sharkey (Hal9000) “purist” and Kerr’s “book” edits, but don’t go back to them often because they are 720p or lower quality.

Wondering if anyone has done a more recent, 1080p or higher quality edit. The kinds of changes I’m hoping for:
FOTR:
Martin Freeman finding the ring instead of Ian Holm
No Bilbo looking for the ring
No Arwen with knife to Aragorn’s throat.
Less Saruman but keep the Uruk Hai introduction
Fixing the “Sam stays underwater for too long” shot.

TTT:
Ents don’t initially decide not to go to war
No Wargs and Aragorn’s fake death
No Elves at Helms Deep
No “squirrel droppings” or “nervous system”.
Frodo doesn’t offer ring to Nazgul

ROTK:
No drinking game and less crude humor.
Frodo doesn’t send Sam home
Gandalf’s staff not broken
Army of the Dead reduced and color-corrected
Mouth of Sauron stays but not decapitated

Just wanted to let you know that this is by far the best Hobbit edit that I’ve seen, and has been my go-to. Would you consider making your bonus materials available in a non-blu-ray format? And have you thought about making a more book-faithful LOTR edit as well? The book-edits out there are lower quality and quite old by now.

Just watched the edit, and it’s the best of RoP one I’ve seen so far, I would say approaching 7/10, and this is coming from a huge Tolkien fan. You really salvaged the character of Galadriel, and I 100% percent agree with your intentions there. That being said, I also agree with some of vranir’s comments, and would have liked to see more fleshing out the Harfoot storyline while possibly reducing some of the Southlands.

Major Star Wars and LOTR fan over many years, hoping to sample some of the great work put together by the community on this site.