Synopsis:

This is a fanedit of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug that loses all of the "Lord of the Rings" prequel-itis, removes the silly parts and has a different ending than the original.

Intentions:

I was inspired by Kerr's Arkenstone Edition and wanted The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug to work as a sequel to An Unexpected Journey, not a prequel to The Lord of the Rings. Also there were some parts that I simply couldn't stand, and thus, I made this fanedit.

Change List:

-Slight color correction to the whole movie to get rid of the green tint has been provided by CommandBen (thank you Ben!) -Added some of the Misty Mountains theme throughout the movie. -Cut Bilbo being tempted by the Ring at midnight. -Cut Bilbo being tempted by the Ring outside the forest. -Cut Bilbo almost telling Gandalf about the Ring. -Cut Bilbo almost losing the Ring and killing a baby spider for it. This isn't Lord of the Rings (yet). -Cut Orcs sneaking past the Woodland Realm to make their appearance in Barrels Out of Bond a surprise. -Cut Thrain's ridiculous Wilhelm Scream. -Cut the eye of Sauron when Bilbo takes off the Ring in Erebor. Now we wonder why Bilbo is affected by the Ring at that moment. In the original, it ruins the surprise that the Ring is Sauron's One Ring in LOTR when watched chronologically. -Cut Smaug saying that the darkness is coming. How does he know that? -Cut forges fight. This was the Hobbit equivalent of the Droid Factory from Attack of the Clones in case of silliness. No dwarf enters the mountain except Thorin after Smaug leaves the Mountain in order to tease Thorin' madness for the next movie. -Cut molten gold. Blergh. -To make the previous two cuts work I had to rearrange some scenes. -Added Smaug's rampage over Laketown (and his inevitable death) to this movie. I liked the cliffhanger but because I cut the Erebor fight, the movie needed more of Smaug's badassness. -Moved Gandalf seeing the Dol Guldur Orc army leaving for the mountain to the very end of the movie for a tease for the next movie.

Additional Notes:

I used Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014 to edit this fanedit.

Other Sources:

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Soundtrack The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Soundtrack The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Soundtrack

Special Thanks:

CommandBen for slight color correction to get rid of the green tint, plus for all of his help and support on this project to make it the best looking and sounding edit possible.