Azog is also approached differently in the two cuts. Movie Review: J.R.R. What does your edit do differently if you don't mind me asking? (Somebody else, some edits later, intercut a walking section and a waterfall that had been placed after Rivendell, with the much more satisfactory implication that it was some distance further on and the entrance was behind the waterfall - an ever-popular trope.) Especially after the wonderful work of tLoR. I've long known that there must be a good movie hiding within the mess that is The Hobbit trilogy. Amazing job on the edit, I've made it a staple of Tolkien movie rewatch binges in lieu of the sadly overlong theatrical trilogy. Its a case of "faithful to the book" not being the same as "best movie". All-in-all, it is difficult for me to decide which of the two edits are better, and it is all going to depend on personal preference. To date I haven't found a fan edit that I thought was perfect. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. It's a five-minute sequence that re-introduces all the dwarves one by one, and it takes place halfway through their journey. I found it was the perfect length for a Hobbit fan edit and paced itself rather well. https://ifdb.fanedit.org/j-r-r-tolkiens-the-hobbit-maple-films-edit/reviews The Maple Film also seemlessly inserts Gandalf's eulogy into the funeral scene, and I prefer the funeral scene without the eulogy, as it's more quiet and sad that way. For those unaware, this is a fan edit of The Hobbit movie trilogy, which cuts over 50% of the runtime, resulting in a single 4 hour movie, around the same length as the Return Of The King Extended Edition. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. J.R.R. Your reason for cutting it is perfectly valid, it's not book-canon and fits more snugly in your Durin's Folk edit that actually dwells on Gandalf's story, but I just thought it was one of the strongest moments of the whole trilogy and perfectly encapsulates the soul of the story. It's an improvement, to be sure. I must have blocked out just how much crap was in the hobbit trilogy, I forgot many of those things. Like this project on Facebook! You can stream it from the mega link on the download page. // 15-Part Breakdown of The Hobbit – The Bilbo Edition. They both have their pros and cons. Tolkien's The Hobbit. You'll probably need to create an account first however. Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Dustin Lee's/"The Maple Edit" is the one I've continued to watch each year around the holiday season (after sampling a small assortment), but just to get Tolkien nerds' collective opinions: Do you guys think there is a stronger cut? That said, I do still prefer the Maple Films fan edit, it just feels a lot richer in terms of character, and its use of extended edition scenes make for … Or is that one largely the best? Audio/Video Quality . Fans have been trying to recut Peter Jackson’s overstuffed trilogy of The Hobbit films for about as long as the third movie in the series (based on J.R.R. That’s how I felt too, when I watched the Maple Films edit I actually loved the movies like I’d originally expected in theatres. The Maple Film, however, is a much more professional edit than The Bilbo Edition, and most of its cuts are seemless. I'll definitely be rewatching this next time I do a LotR marathon. [...] a lot of the dwarf flashbacks have been scrapped. See below. Get involved! Other than that you did the absolute best with the material you had, 100x kudos. Hi there, I'm the editor of the Maple Films cut and can echo most of what u/filmfan95 has said as true. For all things Tolkien, Lord of The Rings, and The Hobbit ... Press J to jump to the feed. While The Hobbit is a short book, Professor Tolkien filled the book with A LOT of plot, so there is a lot to get through. Check out the "Maple Films" fan-edit. But, if you have any questions/comments about my own edit, I'm happy to answer them! Wrong. Check it out here! Visual Editing . TOLKIEN’S THE HOBBIT aka THE MAPLE FILMS EDIT A four-hour edit, split by an Intermission right where Jackson originally intended to split the Hobbit when it was still two films. Another edit aside from mine that I'd recommend is the The Spence Edit. It's very good, but it's not perfect. Maybe the problem is that Jackson and Co, overstuffed the films with so much silliness and stupidity that it's nearly impossible to get rid of all of it. UPDATED DECEMBER 2015. It's an enjoyable watch. However, I did end up including it in my side-quest edit Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery, which follows the White Council subplot that just didn't fit with the main Hobbit quest. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (Movie Tie-in): The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The … Wrong? This is the only way I watch The Hobbit now. I've edited the trilogy into one 160 minute film. 1 Welcome to the Hobbit Fanedits Wiki 2 Fanedits of the Hobbit Trilogy 3 Links 4 Latest activity Some people like Peter Jackson's Hobbit Trilogy. Archives. Although I've received some criticism for it, there is a reason I excluded the extended Beorn scene from the edit. The Laketown bullshit has been greatly reduced. It's an improvement, to be sure. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Maple Films Edit) Featured Hot. The guy who made it did a wonderful job with what he had to work with. The original plan was to have two movies, the first being The Hobbit and the second being the supplementary/appendices material to tie it to the lotr trilogy. Tolkien's The Hobbit. But for me, it ultimately fell short. 10.0. Was very very disappointed in that trilogy. This was a great introduction to the fanedit world. There was never a plan to just adapt the Hobbit book on its own. Hobbit Fanedits Wiki; The Hobbit: The Original Two-Film Structure; The Hobbit: Back Once Again; The Hobbit Reconstructed; The Hobbit: An Unextended Journey; The Hobbit Abridged (Hunt) The Hobbit Fan Cut (Rankin Bass mashup) It was a great enhancement to the narrative as a screen adaptation. Azog The Defiler is given less prominence and a lot of the dwarf flashbacks have been scrapped. J.R.R. 9.3. Yeah, it's hard to believe there's actually a decent movie underneath all the nonsense, but this is pretty impressive work. The Bilbo Edition makes considerably more use of the Extended Cuts of the film (though the extended scenes are clearly from a lower quality print than the rest of the footage in that edit), and the scenes added are scenes that should have been in the movie in the first place in my opinion. Thought I'd share my passion project of the past year and a half. Yo! This is the main download page for J.R.R. J.R.R. They have some useful information that will get us all off on the right foot. 9.0. All White Council scenes are gone, as is the Dol Guldur/Necromancer subplot. The Hobbit: The Bilbo Edition 3.0 An Unexpected Update - 6/01/2020: Hello everyone! This is THE main database collection for fan edits online. 9.0. Tolkien's The Hobbit is officially listed on the Internet Fan Edit Database! 10.0. The site may not work properly if you don't, If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit, Press J to jump to the feed. More details on our policies, especially our Own the Source rule are available here.If you do not understand any of these rules send a private message to one of our staff for further details. For a reasonable overview of the major known edits, see here: https://ifdb.fanedit.org/fanedit-search/tag/franchise/lord-of-the-rings/ (For access to them, you're on your own.). The Bilbo Edition does a good job of cutting out the lines that indicate Smaug knows more than he should, whereas the Maple Film keeps these lines. https://www.facebook.com/hobbitfaneditHere is the official trailer for J.R.R. I normally don’t like to give so much criticism on a fan edit done out of love and with a ton of effort, but it’s gotten to a point where every single person who knows fan editing exists jumps to say the Maple edit is perfect and completely ignores other edits or any problems. Hey just saw this post...I'm the creator of the Maple fan edit and wanted to say thanks for watching! I think she has maybe one line. Say that he has not fallen! If this is your first time here please read our FAQ and Rules pages. Eldusto84’s The Hobbit Wins August 2016 FEOTM by MCP on October 3, 2016 Posted in Fanediting Bits, Site News After a slightly contentious month for Favorite Edit of the Month, Eldusto84 took home the Favorite Edit of the Month for August 2016 with his J.R.R. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://ifdb.fanedit.org/fanedit-search/tag/franchise/lord-of-the-rings/. Tolkien severlerin merakla beklediği J R R Tolkien's The Hobbit Maple Films Fan Edit Filmi Türkçe Çevirisi'ni sizlere sunuyorum. J.R.R. https://ifdb.fanedit.org/j-r-r-tolkiens-the-hobbit-maple-films-edit J.R.R. The Maple Films edit takes some excellent steps toward pulling that good movie out of the muck. For those unaware, this is a fan edit of The Hobbit movie trilogy, which cuts over 50% of the runtime, resulting in a single 4 hour movie, around the same length as the Return Of The King Extended Edition. 10.0. TOLKIEN'S THE HOBBIT aka "THE MAPLE FILMS EDIT" Experience the Hobbit trilogy as a single film, recut to be more faithful to the spirit of Tolkien's classic novel. WORD, thank you for this write-up! "The Tolkien Edit" takes The Hobbit film trilogy from Warner Brothers on an unexpected journey. The plan is to edit three mediocre films into one (hopefully) excellent film. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Maple Films Edit): This is one of two fan edits I watched of The Hobbit trilogy (the other being The Bilbo Edition). Action scenes are tightened up, for example the barrel ride sequence is much shorter and less annoying. The Maple Film also seemlessly inserts Gandalf's eulogy into the funeral scene, and I prefer the funeral scene without the eulogy, as it's more quiet and sad that way. Audio Editing . 1 talking about this. It's clear that the filmmakers of the trilogy were trying to make Smaug have some kind of psychic power, but the problem is that he knows too much and too little at the same time. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is a fan-edit of the Hobbit trilogy by Dustin Lee of Maple Films.The edit removes the side plots and unnecessary additional scenes not present in the novel, consolidating the trilogy into one 4-hour film, and color-corrects the originally over-saturated picture to be more aesthetically pleasing and more consistent with the Lord of the Rings trilogy. While Dustin did find a way to bridge the gap between the Eagle rescue and Beorn's house (and very well done that was), he just jump-cut from the Troll hole to Rivendell, leaving the jarring implication that it was at the back of the Troll hole. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Due to the ample time provided by COVID-19 quarantines, I finally have had time to address frequently reported issues with audio lag. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (Maple Films Edit).… The Maple Film, however, is a much more professional edit than The Bilbo Edition, and most of its cuts are seemless. The Hobbit looks significantly worse because it opts for more CGI than practical effects obviously due to the lack of prep time. And nobody was surprised when it was announced that the two movie idea was being scrapped in favour of a trilogy considering the amount of money the lotr trilogy made. One widely circulated fan edit in 2015, “The Tolkien Edit,” ran four hours long . Narrative . Azog is also approached differently in the two cuts. All in all it just feels like a tighter, more faithful adaptation of the book. (Upfront, and aside, I would like to encourage any other Hobbit-cut-fan-editors out there to LIFT from my work freely; I took inspiration and used ideas from other fan-editors and I view the whole collective fan-edit phenomenon as a picture of the movie emerging from the source material itself, with the help of some clever minds. This film focuses on… The Maple Films edit takes some excellent steps toward pulling that good movie out of the muck. all that was added to pad this small book in to a movie trilogy to rival LotR. Enjoyment . One small thing I wanted to ask/perhaps beg for lol: Is there any way you could include Gandalf's "deeds of ordinary folk" speech in your cut? Tauriel is almost completely excised, and as such the awful love triangle sub-plot is not present. Click the title of the Chapter for an in-depth analysis of the book-to-film translation. ... Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email Link. A subreddit for discussion about "The Hobbit" and Tolkien's works, be they books, movies, radio plays, music, art, you get the idea! Edit: As of April 14, the 3.0 version is live and available! He also left in the gratuitous bit where Bilbo goes Ax Crazy on the baby spider-thing, left in the silly Dwarf chase through Erebor, left in too much Alfrid (Peter Jackson's Jar Jar Binks), didn't think of a good way around Bard's impossible William Tell trick with the broken bow etc., and left in Bilbo's lie about losing the Ring (not that Gandalf believed him anyway). Michael Mercy 16,883 views. The biggest addition made after it became a trilogy was the Battle of the Forges.