*repost*

This was made for all "The Hobbit" fans, who loved the book, liked the movie, or are engaging in Middle-Earth for the first time. 

The spirit of this fan edit is to be more in line with the Tolkien book, which is to say that all the scenes in the film follow the book as close as I possibly could, with little to no exposition or side stories. A lot of the footage is reappropriated to tell the story more closely to the book, so it's necessary to approach this as if you've nA lot of people talk about getting the story to "move quicker", but what is the story? A hobbit leaves his home to help dwarves, gets knocked out during a battle and misses it, and goes home only to find his house ransacked...no! The fun of the Hobbit is in the scenes and the silly moments and the crazy adventures. Scenes like Beorn or the trolls or the conversation with the goblin king help paint the world and make the adventure fun and unique, they don't do much for "the story", if that's how you're looking at it. This edit does its best to retain all the fun moments of the book and tell the story in Tolkien's unique and quirky way. 
ever seen the Peter Jackson movies before, which is how I approached editing it - even turning the book page by page as I edited each scene. 

The idea is to make this as standalone of a film as possible, whereas the Peter Jackson originals seem to try at every moment to remind you how evil the ring is and where things are headed in LOTR, most of these ideas were not in existence when the book was written (the ring was just an invisibility ring), and in my opinion don't necessarily belong in this story as a standalone piece. This is about Bilbo's adventure to the Lonely Mountain! Not a nostalgic LOTR prequel.

So this means overall:

-no Azog (at all)
-no elf-love-triangle (in fact very little-to-no-elves at all)
-no Dol Guldur/Radagast (actually I made a whole separate fan edit for that:
-removed all orcs from all action sequences, except for the final battle (they are still mentioned here and there, but don't appear until the end)
-heavily reduced "dragon sickness" plot 
-heavily reduced "ring" foreshadowing (this is The Hobbit, not a LOTR prequel)