Beloved story and beloved director - but I feel the indulgence does a disservice to the pure story of one hobbit's journey there and back again. I feel too much effort was put into making the prequel to LOTR and not in telling Bilbo's story. i am not saying that i have some greater or higher concept of what true meaning of the hobbit is. but i do always cherish it as a simple light tale of bilbo finding what life and living are all about. i tried to remove the excess and leave the story. there is so much beautiful film here, but i have no sacred tie to it so i cut and i think the cut is good.


You have to download the file to view. It is a 710x400 (16:9) center extraction of the wide screen sources. The size is @1.8Gb. Please give it a look and let me know your thoughts.

Almost 8 hours of 3 movies reduced to 3 hrs 10 mins.

I cut:

dwarf/elf love affair

Gandalf's story

Anything legolas - chick elf

Anything Orc/Thoran

Gratuitous fighting

Stupid gaffs/jokes that are not Tolkien's

I did condense the Beon story. But it is was condensed considerably by Peter.

Alfred and the master nonsense.

Stupid dwarf jokes

Thoran/Orc final fight - reduced

All dwarf back story

I kept a fair amount of the songs-

I kept gollum and smaug interactions intact they are well done and close to book accurate-


It could still lose more but I like the pace of it and the arc works. I wish the end could be a little smoother but all in all this is something I am proud of and can watch and say that is the hobbit.

— benjamin foushée

i own none of this material / media / metadata

all comes from

An Unexpected Journey (2012)

The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Directed by Peter Jackson

Produced by Peter Jackson

Carolynne Cunningham

Zane Weiner

Fran Walsh

Screenplay by Peter Jackson

Fran Walsh

Philippa Boyens

Guillermo del Toro

Based on The Hobbit

by J. R. R. Tolkien

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/sha…

