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Actually, the Lord of the Rings extended editions aren’t long enough (www.thedigitalfix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ahimsabjorn to c/tolkien

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Lol! I'm inclined to agree.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I think two of the critical points in favour of the hobbit movies being longer:
• The cutaway to what Gandalf and Co did, because as the legendary Sir Christopher Lee said: it shows Saruman when before he fell.
• The battle of the five armies is like a page in the book because its all from Bilbo's perspective and he gets knocked out basically at the start of it. You can't give movies(or TV) a fight like that and have them gloss over it. Well, excluding the last season of GOT which did that at least twice.