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Originally Posted by Geoff D
Jackson loves to add scenes and snippets which aren't essential for the movie at hand but which often inform the next one, and seeing as they'll be fighting in Dale in the third movie it's odds-on that we'll be getting a proper look at Dale in the Smaug EE. (It'll add some time to their journey up the mountain too, 'cause they get up there awfully quick once they get out of Laketown in the theatrical cut.)
To be honest, I think that's why the EE of ROTK is so bloated with superfluous junk, Jackson just lumped all that stuff in because he didn't have that main context of 'what informs the next movie?' to reign him in. That might work in the favour of the EE of Five Armies though, seeing as it's the bridge between The Hobbit and LOTR, so Jackson will hopefully still be thinking along the lines of adding stuff which ties in with LOTR instead of adding in any old crap for the sake of it.
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Something related to the idea of this is will the AUJ EE inform this EE? So, for example, will we learn more about Thranduil's jewels, and about the Dwarven Rings of Power? The latter in particular seems a given with Thrain's arc.