Oh my goodness ... my wife and I do the exact same thing!!!! Usually extended cuts aren’t as good, but these are marvelous!
I think that is awesome you do this too. = )
ALL my battle flags will proudly proclaim "FOR FRODO!"
Our family does this every November and then spend the next 11 months talking about what great movies these are and quoting our favorite lines.
What’s the difference with the “extended version”?
I’ve been reading and re-reading the books for about 25 years now, and while I enjoyed the Peter Jackson version, I didn’t enjoy it enough to pay for any DVDs.
Does the extended version include scenes not in the film? If so, can you give us a brief rundown of the added scenes?
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it’s worth fighting for.
How wonderful that you have such a tradition!
The trilogy is such a message and rallying cry, isn’t it?
My sons Frodo, Merry, and Samwise, my daughter Éowyn, and my wife Galadriel and I watch it once a week.
...The movies are fine, but, I prefer to read JRR’s work from time to time.
I enjoy reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy every couple of years. The movies were so well done they should be watched again and again.
I'm thinking that after Wodehouse, I'll do Tolkien via audiobook. I first read the print books back in the late 60s, and then again about ten years ago. This time I may audio-read the LOTR books . . . then watch the LOTR movies, the extended version . . . then read the Hobbit book . . . and then be ready for the Hobbit movie when it comes out.
The unabridged cd audio production of the LotRs from Recorded Books, Inc. narrated by Rob Inglis is really great, as is their unabridged The Hobbit, with the same narrator. The books are read without becoming too melodramatic, so the story and not the production is what you notice. I am just now listening to The Return of the King on my second time through the set. Personally, I believe Tolkien meant these stories to be read aloud over many evenings by the fireside, not chopped up and served in movies. Movies kill the imagination of an audience. Listen to Tolkien sometime - he built those sentences to be read aloud.
The third movie was good, but the shaky cams in the battle scenes bothered my eyes and then there were the multitude of endings while I was fighting my own internal struggle with a 64 oz Diet Coke.
I’m doing my fifth or sixth rereading of the Harry Potter series and have the last two movies from Netflix. I know there are anti-HP people on Freepers so flame away but it has led me back to Jane Austin, Dickens, and Shakespeare.
Just received the blue-ray version for Christmas... 15 discs! My older extended versions were 2 discs each (total 6 discs), but each movie is on one disc, front and back. In the blue-ray version each movie is in 2 parts on two discs. I’ve seen each of the movies a dozen times, but there is so much content on the blue-ray discs (storyline production, behind the scenes, etc.) that it will keep me occupied the entire winter!
Became a Tolkien fan after seeing Fellowship when it was first released. Devoured all of the books and consider Tolkien one of the best writers of all times. His descriptions of scenery are pure magic, not to mention that he was able to create entire worlds including new languages!
I’ve been following Peter Jackson on FB and he has been giving updates from New Zealand on the progress of the Hobbit which will be out in about 330 or so days :) I can’t wait!
Thanks Dagogo redux!
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When I was a wee one, back in the mid to late 70’s, my aunt took her daughter, my brother and myself into her basement and read us “The Hobbit” .
We loved it and on my 10th birthday, my neighbor bought me the set and I read them. Dont remember too much about them, being 30 years ago but hubby has read the series once a year, for the past 20 some years.
I have the vhs tapes , the “normal” dvds, the extended dvd’s set with the appendices.
Now that last set......I’ve just about worn it out. Plus my now 5 year old is responsible for some of the scratches and one lost disc ( sigh ).
In fact, I wanted this set replaced for one of my Christmas gifts and since I didnt get it yesterday, I guess I’ll have to buy it for myself LOL
One of my all time favorites. And yes, it’s about time to watch them again.
Ohhhhhhhhh I cannot WAIT til The Hobbit is released.
Thanks for this thread ~
I like the LOTR but every so often I want to watch the 1967 Russian version of WAR AND PEACE, followed by Dino de Laurentus’ WATERLOO on those cold winter nights.
But then I also like to watch EL CID smash the moslem moors in Spain.
The first movie came out less than six months after the late Freeper MrConfettiMan found out he had cancer. This was his favorite line:
Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil.