I just watched a fan edit this afternoon, called J.R.R Tolkien’s The
Hobbit. Dustin Lee (aka Goldeneye), the editor, cut everything he considered to
be “unucessary plots and characters” from the three movies. Now there’s a
single four hour movie!
Yeah, the fan edit is good, I confess, good work Dustin! But it, as every
fan edit, still full of problems. Although there are some good stuff here.
The color grading of AUJ’s scenes is now changed to match the others two
movies. This is something I really enjoyed about Dustin Lee’s edit. I was
looking forward for someone who could did it.
Azog did not kill Thror or Thrain in J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit. The first
time we see him is just before the coming of the eagles. Now he wants to kill
Thorin because… well, no reason for it.
Legolas in here. We do see him in Mirkwood’s arrest, the barrel chase and
we do see him warning Gandalf about Bolg’s army. Tauriel is gone, and there’s
no romance. Her only line is “where is the keeper of the keys.”
Most of Alfrid is gone, but we still seing the politics of Lake-town, for
some reason. No antics, nothing, Ryan Gage will avenge! And Dol Guldor subplot
does not exist in this edit. Gandalf just leave the dwarves and come back
warning the guys about a orc army. That also means no Radagast (sad), no
Galadriel and no Saruman.
Dustin Lee included some scenes from the extended edition, which is pretty
good, but unfortunaly he did not include some of them that could have give more
personality to the dwarves, such as Bofur’s song at Ravenhill, Goblin-town’s
antics and the introduction Beorn.
List of scenes from the EEs included in J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit:
- · Gandalf and Bilbo: “Can you feel it” at their way to Rivendell.
- · Elrond and Gandalf’s conversation about dragon sickness.
- · Bard at the rooftops: no idea why he kept this one…
- · Bilbo and Bofur’s conversation at Erebor’s gate.
- · Some “hero moments” of the dwarves.
- · New scenes from Beorn killing orcs.
- · The funeral is in! And Gandalf’s eulogy was inserted.
Probably the most awful change in J.R.R’s Tolkien The Hobbit is how Kili,
Fili, Oin and Bofur are no longer left in Lake-town. Now they go with the
others to Erebor. But we just do not see them there, and that is just awful!
The “Sons of Durin” scenes was ruined, because the epic music was replaced
by Misty Mountains Cold, which does not make sense. But okay.
Another thing that was ruined in this edit is Bard’s family role. We
barely see the girls, we do not hear their names (only Bain’s) and there’s no
emotion.
Another list of changes for the curious:
- · No Radagast and warg chase. We just skip from Sting’s scene to the dwarves going down the cave.
- · Bilbo no longer kill a warg.
- · No stone giants.
- · Thorin no longer confronts Azog at the pinewood.
- · The chase to Beorn’s house is gone. During the fly to carrock, we do hear Gandalf’s voice over saying “there’s a house blahblahblah” and we cut to Beorn outside his place. Terrible edit.
- · Most of the barrel chase was cut.
- · Intermission at 2h10m.
- · The company entering Bard’s house was cut.
- · No prophecy here.
- · No dwarves leaving Lake-town.
- · The battle of the forges was cut from this movie.
- · Dustin Lee did a good job removing the gold from Smaug when he leaves Erebor.
- · Most of Smaug’s attack is gone.
- · Bard and Legolas cut.
- · Lakemen entering Dale was removed.
- · “I will not part a single coin” removed.
- · No were-worms…
- · Most of the battle is gone.
- · “I am gonna kill that piece of shit” removed.
- · Bard killing an ogre and saving his kids removed. Don’t know why.
- · Golden floor removed.
- · Legolas vs Bolg removed.
Yeah, that is it. For some reason, Dustin Lee, aka Goldeneye, just hate
CGI. He removed several scenes that “overused CGI”. He also removed “silly
scenes.”
Although there are some thing I did not like, I think this is a very good
fan edit, the better I ever watched. The quality is awesome, and the editor
included some unused Howard’s shore musics in J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Good
job Dustin Lee, and where’s Tauriel?
