The Hobbit trilogy has thrown Tolkien - fans a rather rarefied trouble : way too much screentime for some of their most beloved role . So , what could have been cut to make the motion-picture show a little smaller and a whole lot good ? So , so much .
After readingthis follow-up of the final installation ofThe Hobbitto make its way — lento and painfully — across movie screens , a discussion began about just what vista could have been cut to get the closely nine - hour chronicle down to a steely 3 hr , or so .
https://gizmodo.com/everything-they-said-about-making-three-hobbit-movies-w-1671978013
And the inclination is not small :
Tygore
The Fellowship of the Ring is 177,227 words long . The Hobbit is 95,022 . Fellowship of the Ring tally into a three - hour pic , why could n’t the shorter book ? I realize that word reckoning does n’t match up 1 - to-1 in screen door time , but given the significantly increase length of Fellowship I have a hard metre trust that it could n’t be pull off with The Hobbit .
falseprophet
Just off the top of my head :
1 ) It takes Fellowship less than 5 minutes at the beginning ( with Galadriel voiceover ) to explicate the background knowledge of the One Ring , the Last Alliance , and Isildur ’s failure . Return of the King takes less time to explain how Smeagol was spoil into Gollum by the One Ring . It takes An Unexpected journeying over 15 hour for Bilbo to interrelate in voiceover how Smaug took the Lonely Mountain from the dwarves .
2 ) It pack AUJ about 10 minutes to show that Radagast the Brown lives in the Wood , is friends with barbaric beast , and is a equal of Gandalf ’s .
3 ) Just about every action fit in the first two movie is 4 or 5 clock time as long as it has to be . The dwarven band of “ merchants , miners , tinkerers , toy dog - makers ” kills more Misty Mountains goblins in a single scene than the Fellowship , half of whom are veteran warriors , kills in two , maybe three film .
4 ) In Desolation of Smaug , what was the percentage point of the political machination subplot in Laketown ? It ’s just padding .
5 ) Does Legolas necessitate to be in these films ? All he does is ruination every scene he ’s in .
6 ) Do Galadriel and Saruman have to be in these film ? The only thing the Necromancer subplot does in the leger is excuse why Gandalf is n’t there most of the time to write the gnome ’ bacon . In retrospect it also ready up Lord of the Rings , but we can find out those films if we desire to have it off the eventual termination .
StorminMike2000
Ok , but do we have to sustain through non - canonic additions ? When did the dwarves get into a fight with Smaug in the book ? Who is Tauriel ?
Merijeek
The goblin spot in the first film ( which accomplished what , exactly ? ) and the part with the Harlan Fisk Stone behemoth .
OHMYGOD I question IF HALF OUR MAIN fictitious character JUST GOT SPLATTED TO end IN AN INSTANT ? ? ! ! ? ! No , they did n’t . And I did n’t wonder that because I ’ve seen a film before . And so had everyone else in the theatre .
Meanwhile other commenters endeavor to come up with a form of address for the newly foray - down version of the trilogy :
The Hobbit : An Unexpected Edit
VassagoMyth
Or , in this character , The Hobbit : A completely Expected Edit
Shadowolf
The Hobbit : the Long Awaited Edit
While others but wondered just what else the extended versions might open up the room access to :
Alexander Robles
Hmm . Well , maybe the fifty - film epic poem of The Silmarillion will be good .
What do you think ? Do you have your own list of things that could have been whittled out of the trilogy to the welfare of all moving-picture show - goers ? Or do you want to make the case for why one of these seemingly superfluous scenes needs to be continue ?
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