Lord of the Rings

[Del Murder]

Just had a marathon of the LoTR movies this weekend. It was awesome, but I forgot how long the extended editions are. When you start a movie at 9pm you don't expect to still be watching it at 1am!

[Bred Pit]

That was great movie and the releasing of the all parts of the movie
in short intervals, i think increase papularity of the movie.

[Big D]

There is nothing at all done to reinforce the importance that Osgiliath holds, and, worse still, no mention made at all of the Palantir of Minas Tirith, which was the single biggest contribution to Denethor's insanity.

The Palantir features briefly, but prominently, in the extended Return of the King.

The extended cut of The Two Towers ranks as one of my favourite movies ever, while the Rohirrim's charge at Pelennor Fields in the finale is probably my single favourite scene.

Sure, there were some reasonably substantial changes between book and film; some things didn't make it to the silver screen which I would rather have seen, but there were some fairly inspired omissions too. Tom Bombadil could easily have been the most frustrating, time-wasting character in cinema history; the excision of Glorfindel and other bit-players cost the films virtually nothing.

[Del Murder]

Bombadil just would not have made sense in the movies. He barely makes sense in the books. I don't think the movies really omitted anything that would have made them better.