[ItsOurTimeNow]

That's the really funny thing about the Extended Edition. You almost HAVE to see it in order for parts of The Two Towers to make sense.

I can see someone watching The Two Towers, having not seen the EE, saying:

"Wait a minute, where'd Sam get the rope from, and why does it burn Gollum?"

"What did Gimli pull out of the Orc-fire? A belt? Why is that important?"

"What did Frodo mean when he said that Gandalf had said, 'Smeagol's story is a sad one.'?"

"Secondly, who is Smeagol? I thought he was called Gollum?"

LOL

Having watch the EE several times, it must have absolutely KILLED Jackson to cut some of those scenes...especially the gift-giving scene in Lorien.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think some of the cuts started to kill him when he started editing TTT! Wait... we didn't explain that!

[af_vet_rr]

Having watch the EE several times, it must have absolutely KILLED Jackson to cut some of those scenes...especially the gift-giving scene in Lorien.

I agree, some of those scenes should have remained. The gift-giving scene was incredibly important, also some of the scenes showing the ranger/hunter side of Aragorn as well as his background with the Elves, IMHO, were important. I had somebody sitting next to me in TTT asking how Aragorn was able to track the Hobbits/Orcs (they hadn't read the books). It's not a big deal to those of us who have read the books, but to somebody who hadn't read the books, they would not know that Aragorn was a bad-a$$ ranger/hunter....

I shouldn't nit-pick I suppose, Peter Jackson did what I didn't think anybody would be able to do.