I, like many other massive fans of both Tolkien’s works and Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, was in many ways disappointed with the subsequent big-screen adaptation of The Hobbit. Created with Sketch. I would suggest focusing on what separates your edit from alternative ones and what type of audience might gravitate towards yours as opposed to others rather than simply proclaiming yours is the best after splicing together your favorite parts of other editors' films. It was only Killstein that had audio problems. Running time: 4hrs 30min Release date: January 2015 Special Features: Box art IFDB: Not listed, THERE AND BACK AGAIN: DAVID KILLSTEIN’S HOBBIT EDIT This was the first 3-hour edit to make headlines. The Bread & Butter edition is still a work-in-progress, but it's nearing completion. Something that I cut might still be in another version, and you might decide you like that one more! The Ironfoot Edition And these are the edits that probably exist, but I'm having a hard time finding a copy of. Other than that, no direct links! Possibly still floating around on torrents somewhere. This is THE main database collection for fan edits online. You criticized my edit and Killstein's for having a lot of audio mistakes, but there are several transition/fade/level issues in your clips alone. The best edit for me is actually J.J. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit by Dustin Lee, and, judging by the fact that some of your qualifiers are “most professional” and “most enjoyable,” I think that you may agree with me. I actually agree with you, so I went and changed it. This is the main download page for J.R.R. Thinly veiled jokes about pot and edible mushrooms, bird poop on the side of his head, being pulled by a team of rabbits, etc... Radagast could have been an interesting and realistic character if they treated him with respect. Buried underneath all the bloat of the trilogy is a movie that is emerging not in the form of one fan-edit, or two, but by the collective creative consciousness of the Tolkien community. by M. Arbeiter. Gotta say, big fan here. Nameless spent so many months working on this project that he honestly wants nothing to do with it anymore, it took so much time away from other more pressing projects, so he asked me to promote it, and I'm doing the best I can. So... who here has seen all of them and can judge which is the best? https://www.reddit.com/r/TheHobbit/comments/59qay9/the_hobbit_4k_angrycut. IFDB: https://ifdb.fanedit.org/hobbit-the-original-two-film-structure-the/. To answer some of your questions, the goal of my version is to further the evolution of the Hobbit as a fanedit. I cannot judge your film before seeing it for myself, but based on Dustin's comments and my own readings of your process and opinion of your own work, I would politely recommend you articulate a vision of your edit more as a creative endeavor on its own rather than an amalgamation of fan edits you liked and therefore better than those that inspired it. Make sense? It’s not a book-accurate edit...Beorn is completely gone and we still have Radagast and some of the Dol Guldur plotline intact. Most notable of the hundreds of changes I made were: Removal of a lot of dwarf-goofiness, to add seriousness in keeping with Lord of the Rings, Shortened corny sequences in Bag End, Troll Scenes, Songs, Used exposition sequence over the Misty Mountains theme to tell the story of Smaug's destruction (Bilbo's intro was cut away), Subplots with the white council have been taken out and made into a separate, concurrent movie called "The Battle of Dol Guldur", All scenes of the Tauriel-Kili-Legolas love triangle have been excised, Dwarves never enter the mountain, Smaug simply breaks out after he encounters Bilbo, Battle of five armies is reduced to a montage that briefly plays after Bilbo gets knocked out. Not sure why you couldn't just let the song play out an extra 30-40 seconds, especially since it was in the book! He mentioned that he feels that it's not about him or you, but a burgeoning story and fan-edit phenomenon. not the associate I asked to promote this fanedit in my name). credits). I recently shared my own personal fanedit of the Hobbit trilogy, The Hobbit Abridged, which cuts all three films to 3h47m (incl. They can be found at my Hobbit site: https://thenamelesseditor.wordpress.com/. Obviously my own edit is my personal favorite, but there are many solid edits out there that have done different things with the source material than I did. This looks interesting! Running time: 5hrs 44min Release date: February 2017 Special Features: Digital/Bluray. It seems there's a new one every week, so I thought it might be helpful to provide a list of some of the best and/or most popular ones. The edit is of high audio/visual quality, and narratively follows a fairly close path to the Maple Films cut. Legolas still does his gravity-defying CGI acrobatics, Radagast still gives us some unwanted pothead humor, etc. IFDB: https://ifdb.fanedit.org/the-hobbit-ironfoot-edition-part-i/, THE HOBBIT: THE BILBO EDITION Originally released in June 2015, the editor (u/DanielU92) went and made some updates and fixes, eventually releasing his final version in February 2016.