Part 1: Created a completely new opening, with narration. It's 5 minutes, and get's you to the story remarkably quickly. Removed Ragadast from part 1, but kept a small glimpse as Gandalf mentions him in the White Council Removed every early appearance from Azog before his reveal. It makes no sense to show him, when the dwarves think he is dead. It completely ruins the ending. Now I hear you cry: Why not remove him entirely? Simple. We, the audience need a nemesis. And, because I believe I can completely salvage Azog as a villain by removing most of his ugly CGI appearances. The eagles confrontation has him looking a lot better than every other scene in the trilogy. Also, Bilbo and Thorin reconciling is desperately needed for some emotional pay-off. We need Thorin to trust Bilbo for an extended time to add to his mental illness in part 2 and 3. Completely re-edited the Goblin King introduction. He is now more ruthless, and doesn't sing a song. He also doesn't interrogate the dwarves, but simply wants to torture them for his amusement. He mentions Azog, but does not send word for the pale Orc. This to keep the mystery of wether he is taunting Thorin or not. Completely re-edited the Troll encounter to keep some light hearted humor, but improve pacing and remove some of the annoying screams from the high pitched troll. Removed Ragast, but kept the Warg attack. How? Just watch the edit and find out. Regraded the Azog attacks scene to ever so slightly make the transition from day to night a bit better. It's still a bit fast, but not as distracting. The white council is now far more mysterious and less in your face. We don't need a journey if you're going to spell everything out here. Added some shots from the second film here to make it visually enticing. Removed some shots from the scene of them reading the letter in the moonlight. It's now better paced. Part 2: Created a new opening, with narration. Taken from the first film. This cuts to the title screen in an utterly dramatic fashion. This then turns into the opening from the second film, which changes for story and pacing reasons. Smaug is the clear villain here. Removed all early viewings of the bear. We now hear Bilbo saw a bear, and can experience the same disbelieve the dwarfs have. We don't need to see it, far better to keep the mystery. A rare example of: tell, don't show. Removed all heavy handed exposition done by Beorn. We don't need to have him and his family killed by Azog. The universe becomes smaller if everyone knows that pale orc. Also, how is he going to be useful in the war if he's such a pushover? Cut the flash to the eye when gandalf sees the painting of an eye. Keep the mystery. Kept everything that works about the battle with the barrels, and cut everything that is too expositiony. Cut Tauriel as much as necessary but not completely. She is a guard, nothing more. Book accuracy is not the goal, creating lean cuts to tell a complete, fulfilling story is the goal. Plus, she is absolutely gorgeous. Kept the orc interrogation, but removed all the cringe/heavy exposition. Mystery kept. This orc attack prompts legolas to go on his own investigation in the third film. Cut the cringe of bard entering lake town with Alfrid being overly evil, but kept the toilet dwarfs. He's a smuggler, ofcourse he smuggles them in his house. Kept Bard's children, but cut Tauriel and Legolas completely here. This was very tricky, but ultimately leads to a far more satisfying climax. Kept some of the dwarfs missing the boat. This is good added tension, and helps some of the dwarfs go against Thorin's decision to not help the laketowners in the third film. They saw their suffering first-hand. Good change, Peter Jackson. Removed Alfrid cringe moments. This was rather easy. He is now a tolerable character. Removed some out-of-place looking extra's. This was tricky, but worth it to create a more consistent looking Middle Earth. Removed Bilbo backing up the Dwarfs. There is no reason for him to somehow be a valid voice, this is the Master's decision only. Removed everything regarding the Dol Guldor scenes with Thorin's father. Instead, we get something.. that.. you guessed it.. keeps the mystery. Cut around everything to keep Bard out of jail, keep as much Dragon scenes as possible, and have the dragon attack laketown afterwards. Bard is not with his children, because he's being searched for by the time Smaug shows up. The Dragon attacks laketown, the dwarfs and the kids try to escape. The rest continues as in the original. No Tauriel and Legolas here. This allows for a climactic version with the boy being used as a ballista (Bard has a son in the book as well, so yay!). Rediculous? I suppose so, but now we have visual consistency. Plus, with all other cringe removed, this becomes far more tolerable. Created a completely new ending. I will not spoil anything, but it tells us what we need to know about the war in part three and raises the stakes dramatically for the third film! Some micro-edits I can't list it's simply too much to keep track off. Part 3: New opening, with narration. This cuts to the title screen in dramatic fashion. This new opening helps the audience buy Thorin's turn to madness. Thorin is already in the mountain for days the moment the movie starts. The pacing is terrific. Just note: This is a small change list, but I really cut a lot from this film, there is easily the most cringe in the entire trilogy is in this film. Alfrid cringe removed. He is now simply greedy, but not to the point where you want to punch him. He even has a redemption arc! The character is 100% salvaged. Cut Tauriel and Legolas from the opening, obviously. We now see the dwarfs sail away with guilt in their eyes when they leave the humans in their agony. However, we do get the scene of Tauriel looking at Laketown from the second film, but now it's smoking from the fire in the distance. Tauriel tells Legolas they need to hunt the orks, and that this dragons death and the orks aren't a coincidence. Gandalf is not in a cage, but left for dead as Galadriel finds him (used as bait?). Cut around the fight with the Nine to be less ugly. I kind of like the scene now. It's not perfect, but it feels more visceral than the original. Removed Alfrid being a coward. He now slowly becomes more heroic and is not seen again after offering assistance to Bard and the children. Heavily cut around the war to make more sense, and remove the overly comical and overly gruesome parts of it. I don't believe there is a single scene that hasn't been altered here. Thorin and Dwalins conversation happens a lot earlier to give his recovery from madness the proper time to develop. Removed a few shots of Azog shouting commands, and instead we let the visuals do the talking for the most part. Horn blows, flags wave, orcs attack. That's all we need to know. There are shots from Azog, but only the ones that look like the VFX work was actually finished. Again: tons of micro-cuts. Completely re-edited the ravenhill sequence. NO LEGOLAS. Yet we get a 100% complete battle! Legolas and Tauriel serve as exposition pieces to tell the audience where the armies are coming from, and after that their stories are over. Both characters are 100% salvaged. Bilbo arrives to late to warn the Dwarfs, and madness ensues. The fight is utterly different from the original film. Nothing is left as the original. Bilbo wears the ring throughout the entire sequence. Nameless orc captain kills Fili, Bilbo arrives and finds the Dwarfs fighting for their lives. Beorn arrives and as all hope seems to return. Azog and Thorin fight and both deliver fatal blows. As Dwalin chases the last Orks away, Bilbo get's knocked out and we get a dream sequence that adds to the emotional impact of Thorin's death and Bilbo's journey. Captain obvious: Tauriel does not mourn the dwarf. No Legolas and no Thranduil here. We do get Thranduil mourning his losses. No goodbye to all the Dwarves. Bilbo sneaks away after talking to Balin. We have already seen him give his respects to Thorin, and Dwarfs aren't the kind of characters who can sneak up on a Hobbit anyway. No 'Dwarvish replicas line' Some micro cuts I cannot all name here were made to keep the film as properly paced, and engaging as I could make it. Litterally thousands of changes have been made. This is an utterly different film in tone and pacing from the original. I keep the notes pretty vague, because I don't want to spoil too much.