We always figured somebody would do it, but we didn't think it would be so soon. And who knows who long this will last online before the mighty powers of Warner Bros. come swooping down to squash this out with all the fury of Smaug, but an anonymous Middle Earth fan, going by the name of TolkienEditor, has shaved down Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" bloat-a-thon into a single, four-hour movie.
You can read about the many changes in detail here, but these are the ones we found to be most significant or interesting, and perhaps most notable to fans of the movies or novella:
The Tauriel-Legolas-Kili love triangle has also been removed. Indeed, Tauriel is no longer a character in the film, and Legolas only gets a brief cameo during the Mirkwood arrest. This was the next clear candidate for elimination, given how little plot value and personality these two woodland sprites added to the story. Dwarves are way more fun to hang out with anyway.
The prelude with...
