Return of the King - Extended Version

[Cailleach]

It is SO AMAZING!!!! Since I know there are a lot of people who haven't seen it yet, I'll make a link to my comments!



****DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED****

First of. More Eomer = always good! And that part where he finds Eowyn...that was so emotional, sweet, scary, sad I can't even begin to describe it!


The "fight" between Saruman and Gandalf - Amazing. You can see that what Saruman says to Théoden and Gandalf takes root over the rest of the movie. Grima was funny and scary at the same time. And Legolas killing him was cool! (I know Ring Lunatic will definitely disagree) Gandalf shows that he's definitely not a faint hearted person when he destroys Saruman's staff. Although it was a cool scene I'd expected more

Legolas', Eomer's and Gimli's drinking game - Very very funny! Legolas' line" "Game Over" will become a classic for sure! Hahaha, and Legolas' was definitely tipsy!

Merry and Pippin's dancing game - Very very sweet!

Eowyn's dream and Aragorn's comfort - So sweet! Aragorn does really care for her. Eowyn's dream must have been scary, but you can see she's a strong person. I wonder if she dreamt about what was going to happen in the great battle or if it was just the coming doom in general...

Merry's and Aragorn's talk - Short but sweet. Gave a little background and character development!

Pippin talking about Boromir's death to Denethor - touching on pippin's part. Denethor is creepy. I wonder if he was not only paranoid but demented also...

Gandalf's talk on Minas Tirith - Interesting. Definitely gave much needed information about the city and its Kings and the white tree and the shadow of Mordor (for those who haven't read the books) LOL Pippin: "Well Minas Tirith very impressive. So where are we off to next?"

Frodo and Sam coming upon the crownless/ crowned king's head - beautiful scene!!!! Ha, so Orcs have graffiti and vandalism

Pippin on his outfit and Gandalf - Gandalf's coughing, don't know if it was intentional or if he just was annoyed with Pippin

Faramir in Osgiliath - More Faramir = always good! Gave a little background too.

Small extra scenes in Rohan - More Eomer!!!

Merry offering his service to Théoden - Théoden does really treat hobbits as children, but a sweet scene none the less

Gimli's legion of dwarves - Or rather talk of "Ha horsemen" hahaha, this was sort of touching and funny at the same time. Bonding moment between Leggie and Gimlers!

Merry's horse - Someone please teach hobbits how to ride horses! LOL or horses just don't become hobbits

Faramir, Gandalf and Pippin - Faramir is a wizard's pupil indeed! He's so sweet!

Faramir and Denethor - Crap Denethor sucks! Made me want to hug Faramir. So sad. The expectation in his face when Denethor said "My son" but meant the ghostly Boromir! But Faramir did finally stood up to him, more or less!

Faramir & Pippin - That was surely the sweetest scene from LotR! Hahaha and it's so funny to know that the outfit Pippin wears used to belong to Faramir! And it was so sad to hear Faramir talk about Boromir

Eomer and Eowyn partly about Merry - Man, Eomer means well but that was mean! But I couldn't help but smile at the extra Eomer scene. He means well, he's just too overprotective!

Aragorn and Eowyn – Sweet!

Legolas about the Dimholt - very interesting narrative!

Gimli and the ghost - Now that was the most hilarious scene from the entire LotR! It was so funny to see Gimli blow the ghosts away! Even more to hear him calling for Legolas. I thought I would never stop laughing. Gimli gave walking on eggshells, uhm I mean skull, and entire new meaning!

Dimholt - very scary especially all those skulls!

Legolas and Aragorn - such a touching scene! It was sad and scary to see them looking at Minas Tirith or was it Osgiliath burning

Grond - Evil evil evil!

Disk 2

Legolas shooting pirate (aka Peter Jackson) - Tsssskkk that was very mean from Gimlers, but funny also! The dead attacking was cool. It was funny to see the faces of the pirates

Merry and Eowyn on break - touching. It was cool to see Merry finding his courage

Gandalf and the Witch King - Bloody scary! I loved how Shadowfax stayed and didn't run! It's a good thing Rohan showed up because I don't know what would have happened if they didn't

Eowyn - I think Théoden saw that it was Eowyn who saved his life from that Orc, but I'm not sure. One thing I do know, Eowyn can find! Woa, she was amazing. I wonder if Aragorn knew who he was saving when he killed that orc who tried to kill Eowyn!
Yay for more Aragorn fighting

Eomer finding Eowyn - see comment above, but OMG that was so sad to hear Eomer scream like that! The healing scene with Aragorn was so touching and the song beautiful! Hahaha and Faramir watching her, that is so sweet!

Pippin finding Merry - Hello...hits *Legolas and Gimli on the head* why didn't they help searching? It was evening before Pippin found him!

Aragorn and the Palantir - Eek, that was scary. I wonder if Aragorn though Arwen dead!

Faramir and Eowyn - Man that was so romantic and sweet! Melted right of my screen!

Frodo and Sam as orcs - Those commanding Orc kind of reminded me of Bush. Very stupid but the thought just popped into my mind!

Mouth of Sauron scene - :-O :-O :-O So so so very Evil! I can't believe it. And that was one scary mouth. Very cool to see Aragorn behead the thing. Kind of like "there is still hope" either that or Aragorn was in denial. When that thing showed Frodo's shirt...that was so sad and scary. LOL Gimli "Well that concludes negotiations"

Evil Sméagol/ Gollum!!!
It was touching again to see Legolas trying to save Aragorn (even though that wasn't an extra scene

[trj323]

Forgive me, but I was a big fan of the extended versions of the first two LOTR movies, but this so-called "extended" version of Return of the King is kind of an embarassment. If you watch the trailer for the theatrical version, there are TONS of things that did not make the cut in the extended version that would have been well worth it. For example, expanding the discussion between Arwen and Elrond. Come on, in the middle of the scene she somehow changes her clothes and starts reading an unidentified book. There was much more to this scene that didn't make the extended version, which is a departure from what PJ tried to do in his first two. I was really disappointed, I didn't feel the extended version expanded on anything, which is what the first two extended versions really tried to do and succeeded in doing.

[The Master™]

Greetings stranger...

Oh, and I expect we'll later get the Super Extended Directors Cuts of all three movies... In Super-Dooper Smell-o-vision... With extra commentary...

Gah, who knows what all the messing about is in any of these movies - other than to line the pockets of the executives as us poor saps waste our cash on all these versions!!!

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by trj323

For example, expanding the discussion between Arwen and Elrond. Come on, in the middle of the scene she somehow changes her clothes and starts reading an unidentified book.

Elf magic for you.

[Cailleach]

Personally I would have wanted more Eomer scenes, but you can't have everything. It was four hours as it was. But like the Master said, I wouldn't be surprised if there were super extended versions coming

[mzarynn]

Well, I have bought the Extended Edition of ROTK, but I haven't watched it yet. Can you believe it? But my question is for people who bought the movie and the model of Minas Tirith. The box said it was five discs and the extra DVD was about Howard Shore writing the music. Has anyone watched had a chance to watch it? I didn't want to pay the extra $ for the tower to get the music DVD. But I would still love to know what I'm missing.

[Cailleach]

I didn't buy it, but I heard it was good. I already had a similar cd with the soundtrack and since I'm giving the term 'broke' a new meaning...

[EricD]

Well, personally I enjoyed the extended editions. Not so much for the extra scenes, though those are also cool, but more for the commentary and Making-of features, which I find extremely interesting.

[HBP]

Its so unfortunate that i haven't read the books..... i am assuming there is a lot more to it than the movie depicts. Anyway can someone plz tell me what is meant by the "scouring of the shire".............is it scouring as in "scouring". And was there really a confrontation between Gandalf and the Witch King.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by HBP

Its so unfortunate that i haven't read the books..... i am assuming there is a lot more to it than the movie depicts. Anyway can someone plz tell me what is meant by the "scouring of the shire".............is it scouring as in "scouring". And was there really a confrontation between Gandalf and the Witch King.

Yes, there is a confrontation between Gandalf and the Witch King, which takes place just before the horns of the Rohirrim are heard... it is their arrival (along with Aragorn's forces in the ships of the Black Corsairs) that halts the confrontation... and Gandalf very well may not have been able to defeat the Witch King, incidentally.

As for the Scouring of the Shire... briefly, when the hobbits return to the Shire, they find conditions horribly changed. If you recall the image Frodo sees in the mirror of Galadriel of the Shire-folk enslaved, etc.... that is a part of it. Saruman did not die quite as presented in the film, but went (with Wormtongue) to the Shire to "work a little mischief"... destroying the peace and security of the Shire and turning it into a miniature of what he'd done to Isengard.

The point is that it was the hobbits' involvement with the greater events in the world outside (from which they had long isolated themselves) that allowed them to grow enough to confront this situation and save their own homeland; without that, the companions would have also been enslaved... and, even had the Ring been destroyed, Sauron's influence would have destroyed the Shire indirectly by its effect on and through Saruman. The "scouring", therefore, refers to the cleansing of the Shire of this blight of the Shadow, as well as the scouring away of (at least a part of) their innocence and insularity, as the hobbits once again become a part of the greater world (albeit still rather shy of being involved with the Big Folk) under the reigns of Elessar (Aragorn) and his heirs.

[Delvo]

A big difference between the confrontations of Gandalf and the Witch King in the book and in the movie was that the book doesn't mention Gandalf's staff breaking. I thought this would be a problem in the movie when I first heard of it, since a broken staff means the fight's already over and the wizard is done (as it did with Saruman), but the way the movie pulled it off was satisfactory, making it clear that that was just the first move of the fight, not the last, final stroke finishing Gandalf off. And the movie really needed to show the lord of the Wraiths doing something "powerful" in order to establish how dangerous he really was, since his power was mostly not shown otherwise and some people could think he wasn't really so impressive.

But the words are pretty much the same, and the flames "trickling down the blade" is the same.

One other difference is that, in the silent pause before they would presumably have fought, the horns of the Rohirrim aren't the first sound heard breaking the silence. The horns sound second, "as if in answer" to the first one: a chicken calling.

[HBP]

Thanks guys really appreciated..................Loads came clear.

[Gothic_Angelica]

I still think that some parts that were missed out is a little disappointing but I do like the extended version very much but until a few days ago I hadn't seen the films since they were out at the cinema. As much as I like the films the tv screen doesn't do it justice.

Gothic x

[fingy773]

theres a new 1 out withe the extended editions in 1 disc (in Australia anyway)