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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
As someone who has a familial connection to the Lord of the Rings trilogy (outable, sorry, though if we ever meet IRL it's obvious -- no, not hairy feet), has read them numerous times and recycled that book report just as often, almost the last half of the third book is devoted to that sort of wrapup. Just like much of the first is used to set up the story. If the extended version of the DVD is like the first two, Return of the King's extended version will clock in at well over 4 hours.
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When certain family members bitched a little too much about the length of the ending, I hauled out the books to demonstrate how many inches of text were condensed into the whole thing.
I've heard that the extended-extended version of the whole shebang will reach 19 hours.
I'm pretty sure that the Shire sequences were filmed and will make the extended-extended edition. They were shown in the first movie, when Frodo looks into the mirror.
