Watch yourself a fanedit then. I recommend the M4 book edit. All of the additional stuff removed. Sticks as close to the book as possible and comes in at about 4 hours.
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Yes the fan edits are great and this one is my favorite as well. As far as I'm concerned this is the definitive version and is now a part of my rewatch marathons. It's not just a re-edit, they fix the color grading and add film grain to match LOTR's look and some clever effects to actually change some frames. Really well done.
Any recommendations on where to watch this?
You gotta download it. Just search for it and get it on the website.
Not just one book, one significantly shorter than any of the other LOTR novels.
Like a seven-minute barrel ride down a river.
Or a "battle of five pages" getting turned into an entire movie.
Meanwhile the jag offs who made the dark tower movie figured squeezing 7 books into 1 movie was perfectly logical
You remember the face of your father.
You just wait until they make two movies out of a chapter
I thoroughly enjoyed the series. Sue me.
Same, I even liked the romantic subplot between that elf and one of the dwarves. Everyone else seem to hate it.
Just like the rest of the movies if you judge it in a vacuum it's a very fun series. If you view it through the lens of the books they're somewhat of a let down but I'm not quite sure how it could be done better given the open questions in the series and the author being thoroughly dead.