The Hobbit Trilogy

[NetoD20]

Have you guys already seem these?
https://www.facebook.com/The-middle-earth-memories-1521511808125279/videos/

[aminetude]

Two extended scenes of elrond and saruman vs nazgul are added:
https://www.facebook.com/The-middle-earth-memories-1521511808125279/

[NetoD20]

I like the dwarves a lot, but... ELVES FTW!!!
Whole elves vs dwarves battle scene:
https://www.facebook.com/1521511808125279/videos/vb.1521511808125279/1658278611115264/?type=2&theater

Come on KAT, I'm waiting on you.

[ThorinsNemesis]

It would seem this scene was really filmed, comfirming that this statue in Dol Guldur really held a palantir:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRyv4zsUEAAN57M.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRyv42EUAAQkQLm.jpg
These pictures were posted on TORN (by the user nusilver, he watched the entire Appendices and posted what he saw on them) and are part of the BOTFA EE Appendices, where a quick shot of Gandalf touching the palantir (starting his vision) is shown as a deleted scene. It would seem this really was meant for DOS, to give Gandalf a sence of urgency to reach the Mountain (probably the scene was going to play out just before Azog shows up), but Philippa Boyens decided that they didn't need that scene, so they removed it, probably when they changed the Dol Guldur subplot to exclude Thrain.
I just decided to show these pictures here; I think it's pretty lame that the scene was removed, I would have given everything to see it in DOS Extended Edition (or at least if they had shown the entire deleted scene)  .

[CragLord]

Agree with you, it is pretty lame because those scenes are not included... 
Philippa Boyens decided wrong about this matter. 
Thanks for sharing those pictures, they are cool.
And this will probably be better than Thrain' scene, but we can only despair now.

[ThorinsNemesis]

^^Completely agree with you, my friend; I would have loved to see the completed scene in DOS Extended Edition, even though it's my favorite Middle-earth movie, the palantir scene would have made the movie a lot more interesting  .

[CragLord]

So I didn't understand you completely, is possible somehow to see this?
I mean, you mentioned some Appendices,BOTFA EE Appendices, where we could find those? On original BOTFA EE disk?

[ThorinsNemesis]

As far as I know, yes; a user on TORN downloaded BOTFA from the digital download on iTunes and watched the Appendices that came with it. These Appendices also show the scene when Bilbo plants the acorn in Dale (the scene is completely finished and contain Bilbo's line 'When faced with death, what can anyone do?') and the scene that decides the fate of the Gems of lasgalen (Gandalf reminds Thranduil that his wife left him more than the gems - his son; and asks him which one would his wife want him to value more).
The palantir scene, unfortunately, is not shown completely - PJ and Philippa Boyens obviously decided to show us only a few shots of it. And, even though the shots seem awesome, I still wish they had shown more of the palantir scene 

[CragLord]

Thanks for info.

[ThorinsNemesis]

No problem  . By the way, this is the thread in which the TORN user describes the deleted scenes from the Appendices, page 6 of the thread is where he describes the palantir scene and shows screenshots  .
http://newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/perl/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=879060;page=6;sb=post_time;so=DESC;mh=25;

[CragLord]

I think that you have messed with that link, I don't see it.
Or only I have problem with it?

[ThorinsNemesis]

I hadn't inserted the link, sorry 
I edited my post and you can see the link above  .

[korner]

the question is: why should that palantir be at Dol Guldur??

Maybe they deleted that scene simply because it doesn´t make any sense...

[hoho96]

the question is: why should that palantir be at Dol Guldur??

Maybe they deleted that scene simply because it doesn´t make any sense...

Well at least they deleted it after all. because it's totally nonsense 

[ThorinsNemesis]

^^PJ has said in the Chronicles books and the Appendices that he interpreted Dol Guldur as an abandoned Numenorian fortress that has fallen into ruin. So he and Philippa Boyens imagined a palantir could also have been there. Personally I have no problem with this, in fact I would have loved to see both the scene with the vision and the palantir from close  .