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Hugely enjoyable and a massive improvement on the bloated cinematic version. The only thing I missed was Beorn, although I did feel a bit bad for Tauriel - I'm sure that adding in one or two non-romance scenes for her might be possible without bogging down the pacing. I rather liked her role as the elf with a conscience in the movie; I just deplored that a romance had to be shoe-horned in on the back of that.

Fabulous that Legolas runs out of arrows in his one battle scene, although I agree if it is possible to show him slaying the other orc leader I would be happy for that to be included if it's possible to edit that without him going all Super Mario. I'm torn with the dragon-slaying scene because the close up of the arrow clearly shows it's not a normal arrow but I really don't miss his annoying children. I will probably get used to it the more I watch it.

A couple of scenes felt a tiny bit abrupt but overall it was amazing.