I think they were just trying to follow the book. There's some 80-90 pages in the book after they are rescued. Even with that 30 extra minutes, they still didn't cover as much as the book.

Thrilled to hear it's coming out early though!

Me too! And yes I will watch all three back to back! Oh those men of middle earth! MMMMmmmm :slurp:

The release date is the same time as my son and my birthday so I guess Peter Jackson wanted to give us a birthday present huh... :p

*jumping around the room doing the happy dance*

Legolas :love:/Aragorn/Boromir/Faramir

MmmmmmmmmmMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

There is talk that the LOTR saga will have one more flick...the original basis of the LOTR "The Hobbit"!! This hasn't been confirmed yet! but is being talked about a great deal!!! I hope they make it!

I would guess it was released early to take advantage of the Oscar publicity, too.

Are you going to buy every DVD version of it, Sharni?

in the tolkin range the hobbit is not the only book they could
do part of one of the book was touched on in the felowship
when it showed the battle where the ring was cut from the hand but not destroyed this in turn was lost in the river found by smegol's freind who killed by smegol the ring over time corupted him so golum was born crosses paths with a hobbit (bilbo) who
gives it up. to take us to the start of the lord of the rings

They show more of this in ROTK.....i believe it to be covered nicely in the Trilogy....no need for another on it..

The hobbit would be interesting...and dammit Legolas should be in it....he's old enough to have been around back then *LOL*

Sharni I think u should just re-write the book then, as the screen play and send it off to peter Jackson, I'm sure tolken's family wont be too pissed at the idea of legolas being butt naked in the film when he wasnt in the book....