A Fan Edited “The Hobbit” Into One 4-hour Long Film.

You guys, I really love The Hobbit trilogy. But it’s like…a billion hours long.

Without the extended scenes.

There was A LOT added that didn’t exist in the book, which, depending on who you talk to, was a good or bad thing. But for this purpose, let’s say it was bad.

REJOICE! For a dude going by “tolkieneditor” has gone through the painstaking, horrendously, holy-heck patient task of sitting down with the book and all 3 films, did away with what he felt was unnecessary, and respliced the whole damn thing into one, 4 hour long edit simply titled “The Tolkien Edit”. Apparently this only took him a weekend. Talk about work ethic, bro.

Wanna see the cut list? Here:

• The investigation of Dol Guldor has been completely excised, including the appearances of Radagast, Saruman and Galadriel.

• The Tauriel-Legolas-Kili love triangle has also been removed.

• The Pale Orc subplot is vastly trimmed down.

• Several of the Laketown scenes have been cut, such as Bard’s imprisonment and the superfluous orc raid.

• The prelude with old Bilbo is gone.

• Several of the orc skirmishes have been cut.

• Several of the action scenes have been tightened up, such as the barrel-ride, the fight between Smaug and the dwarves (no molten gold in this version), and the Battle of the Five Armies.

• A lot of filler scenes have been cut as well.

perhaps you’d like to see this feat of endurance? There’s a bit of a puzzle on tolkieneditor’s site, or a torrent if you’re lazy like me. I haven’t even seen the third installment yet…I should probably get on that.