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Originally Posted by thegoat
Agreed. I'd go further and say that scenes was deliberately cut to be EE exclusives. In FOTR, scenes were shaved. The EE adds very little new threads (if any), but it fleshes out what is already there. After that, whole scenes and characters from the books were getting lobbed out.
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Jackson says in the DOS EE commentary that while editing DOS he decided that he prefers to cut things out entirely when he can and put them in the EE rather than leave a truncated version in the theatrical cut. That's why Thrain got the snip. But he completely acknowledges that cutting Thrain and all that stuff resulted in a very different film from the EE and that's not something he likes to have happen but that's what did happen so him and all of us just have to live with it. I'm honestly afraid of what all is going to get cut out entirely from BTFA's theatrical cut. Obviously anything that has to do with Thrain and his meeting with Gandalf, but what else is Jackson gonna purposefully cut out and leave for the EE?