I didn’t think the ring exposition would be necessary, so I didn’t include it in AUJ, but I was able to use it here, where I think it fits better anyway. Added exposition about the seven dwarf rings from the council scene in AUJ. Trimmed the Moria flashback and replaced some footage with shots from AUJ. Restored music to Gandalf meeting Thorin. Used the EE version of the meeting in Bree. I actually liked the bright and vibrant colors of AUJ, so I’ve tried to give DoS a similar color palette.
The entire film has been color corrected to make it less dark and gloomy. The music editing in DoS wasn’t as much of a mess as it was in AUJ, but there are a lot of weird starts and stops in the music that don’t really work, so I think my restored soundtrack is much more coherent and effective, and more in line with the musical landscape of the LotR films. Like I did with AUJ, I’ve also restored a lot of Howard Shore’s fantastic music that Peter Jackson decided not to use. The last 45 minutes or so have also been reworked heavily to improve the pacing, and I’ve replaced the sequence in the forges with Smaug’s rampage in Laketown from the beginning of BotFA as the climax of the film. I’ve tried to keep the focus on Bilbo, Thorin and Gandalf as much as possible, while still making room for characters like Tauriel, Legolas, Bard and their stories (but making sure they never overshadow our main storylines).
I wanted to keep Legolas, Tauriel, Dol Guldur and other material that many previous edits have removed entirely, but reworking these elements to make them work in the larger story that Peter Jackson is telling, and not be the annoying digressions I found them to be in the original version of DoS. As with my AUJ edit, this is not a purist edition, but an attempt to improve upon Peter Jackson’s story.
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