[MozartLover]

Okay, that makes sense. I suppose there are those for whom 5 hours would have been too long.:)

Not me!!!

[allthatisgolddoesnotglitter]

The non-Tolkien fans don't have an attention span that long for something they aren't familiar with, they had to make it accessable to the general public. I could have sat through a 10 hour movie! No LOTR film is too long!