This is the Barefoot edition by Menbailee and runs to 121mins
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/960 ... terbox.avi
Brief Synopsis:
I set out to create a leaner, cleaner first part to The Hobbit. I do not demand purism relative to the book; instead, I insist on solid storytelling. Although I've cut most sequences that looked outright ridiculous, I kept Radagast and several other features that don't appear in the book or are more directed toward children, but which contribute to the story. Azog is gone, save only in an appearance as the angry orc in pursuit of Thorin & Company after the death of the Goblin King, the flashbacks are much condensed and differently placed, Frodo is gone, and we are left with a quicker and more magical return to Tolkien’s famous novel.
Intention:
As soon as I watched The Hobbit, it became my highest fanedit priority. As might be expected for a thin book expanded into three long films, An Unexpected Journey turned into a bloated and muddled mockery of the grandeur we remembered from Jackson's Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit got mired in set pieces, and it thematically undermined Bilbo's story with his violent involvement in the superfluous White Orc plotline. Meanwhile, scenes like The White Council or the Stone Giants provided something of a snoozer but advanced the plot not one whit.
I aimed to improve pacing, to attain greater thematic consistency with Tolkien’s Hobbit, and to remove some laborious absurdity, all while keeping the movie hopefully in continuity with the future films--or at least an edited version thereof.
Additional Notes:
I use the Blu-ray as my source. I am not encoding to Blu-ray at this time for reasons of file size and convenience. For the DVD release, I am offering both a version with hardcoded letterboxing (which is the standard on most DVDs), and also a version with the full 720x480 pixels filled, for which the aspect ratio can either be corrected manually, or simply allowed to fill the entire screen with a slight stretch to the image.
Other Sources:
None.
Special Thanks:
TM2YC for feedback, a beautiful cover, and a reworked matte that I used for the final shots of a more distant Erebor. Also my thirteen friends and my girlfriend who attended the screening party for the first completed workprint.
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