I mean it’s not like they went out and filmed new stuff for the extended versions, it was just stuff they had cut from theatrical. It would make no sense to have filmed stuff they weren’t planning on putting in the movie in the first place.
But on the flip side, Peter Jackson did say that he had plans to include Tom. At the very least, as a background character singing while walking past the hobbits in the forest. Which he said he hoped would be enough to appease fans. This implies to me that he was aware of the popularity of the character and the fact that not including him would make many people very upset.
Given all of that, it’s also not like Tom completely falls under the umbrella of “stuff they weren’t planning on putting in the movie in the first place”.
So I definitely stand by my point that Jackson considering including Tom, knowing he was a fan favorite, and then choosing not even to record and test the scene, which then later could have been included in the Extended Editions, all of which never came to pass… is crraaazzyy man.
I mean it’s not like they went out and filmed new stuff for the extended versions, it was just stuff they had cut from theatrical. It would make no sense to have filmed stuff they weren’t planning on putting in the movie in the first place.
Fair point.
But on the flip side, Peter Jackson did say that he had plans to include Tom. At the very least, as a background character singing while walking past the hobbits in the forest. Which he said he hoped would be enough to appease fans. This implies to me that he was aware of the popularity of the character and the fact that not including him would make many people very upset.
Given all of that, it’s also not like Tom completely falls under the umbrella of “stuff they weren’t planning on putting in the movie in the first place”.
So I definitely stand by my point that Jackson considering including Tom, knowing he was a fan favorite, and then choosing not even to record and test the scene, which then later could have been included in the Extended Editions, all of which never came to pass… is crraaazzyy man.