I’m taking a break from writing about Star Trek to bring you something not all all nerdy or geekish.

I watched The Hobbit: The Tolkien Cut. It’s a 4 hour and 28 minute fan edit of all three Hobbit movies that removes the majority of the fluff that wasn’t in the original book.

Just a reminder that the original three films run back to back to back clock in at 7 hours and 34 minutes if you truncate 10-ish minutes of credits from each of the first two movies. So this edit is only around 60% of the original released footage.

Despite being a fan edit it’s surprisingly well put together. There are maybe two “WTF just happened?” cuts that would baffle someone who had not seen the original edit of the films, but otherwise it’s very coherent and really clips along.

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