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Return of the King: 3 1/2 Hours?!
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Read an article in the Chicago Sun-Times where Elijah Wood was again hinting that Return of the King would be longer than the current Two Towers. The article noted it might be as long as 3 hours and 35 minutes.

Peter Jackson, in the same article, didn't confirm or deny, he simply said "It will be as long as it has to be!"

There is a LOT to cover in the third film. Very exciting!

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Wow. That'll be great! That means that they might not cut too much important stuff out

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yes! *pumps fist* they finally have enough guts to put a 3 1/2 hour movie in theaters! this is great!...if it's true. you never know...
but i hope so!

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for a second i thought i saw 31 1/2 hrs, i was about to pass out!!! 3 1/2 will do for me also
longer movie = less sadness , i hope.. cause not only the ending will be sad, i'll be more sad cause its the last movie its still exciting though!!

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I wouldn't doubt the 3 and 1/2 hour speculation, you're right, they still have a long way to go!

I'm already excited, does that make me a geek?

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Yes that would be cool...but what I'm more interested in finding is just HOW they plan to end it...I read somewhere that the ending is going to be something quite unexpected. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? The ending of the books *IS* sad, but if you read in the appendixes, you'll find out that everything turns out alright and most have happy lives. But the thing is, how do you put all that stuff from the appendixes in the movie?
AHHH! LOL I shouldn't be thinking of all this, I still have a year! Oh well, I'm a curious person

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I cannot wait! It could be any length and I would be content.. However I if I could have a wish it would be to have the whole thing in the theatre (not cut and added later to a dvd) to me that would be fitting whatever length it turns out to be

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Just posted the article:

Return of the King Length

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
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*faints* that would be awesome! I was worried that everything would be crammed into it because they had so much ground to cover! One year is far too long to wait I tell ya!

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Oh my goodness. Three and a half hours will be completely awesome, but I'd probably become overwhelmed with watching a movie in that timespan.

Have a cluckity cluck cluck day!

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that would be so cool! and dvd might be even longer!

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oh my god! I am sooooo excited! The longer the better when it comes to lord of the rings movies! The longer the film the more we get to see Aragorn too


Pippin: Maybe Treebeard's right. We don't belong here, Merry. It's too big for us. What can we do in the end? We've got the Shire. Maybe we should go home.

Merry:The fires of Isengard will spread. And the woods of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn. And all that was once green and good in this world will be gone. There won't be a Shire, Pippin.
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I wish I had time machine. So I can go forward to the future to go see Return of the Kings, instead of waiting for another one year left.

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the more(time) the merrier with lotr!!

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clauda said:

The longer the film the more we get to see Aragorn too


i was gonna say that

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Just a Quote from the article

"It will be as long as it needs to be," says director Peter Jackson, who is busy editing the film right now. "The third is my favorite one in the trilogy. It's almost biblical and makes me cry. It's about incredible courage and the last part of it is just mind-boggling."

I just highlighted some words in there that I would like to raise points about.

1. Biblical: Being a christian, there is no one word explitive that can trump this word in importance, so PJ had better know what he's talking about, I don't doubt that he does, but nothings' perfect.

2. The Last part of it is just mind-boggling: Keep in mind that the last PART does not mean the last SCENE. So i'm guessing that he means the final hour and a half/final third of the movie. I'm thinking that [SPOILER] since the battle at the black gates (if there is a battle, can't remember, do they start fighting and do the forces of mordor stop fighting when the ring is destroyed/when they see the eagles?? please someone tell me!!) takes place after the battle at Pelennor Fields, it must be in this final third. Remember, Sam and Frodo have to go to the Cross Roads, venture into Shelobs Lair, then Sam has to have his choices scene, then he has to rescue Frodo from Cirith Ungol, then they have to venture to mount doom and 'toss the ring in' and get rescued by the eagles. This, i'm thinking, would be a full 3 hour movie in itself. Sam will probably get Frodo out of Cirith Ungol at around the hour and a half - two hour mark, to leave enough time for them to get to Mount Doom. Mount Doom and 'The end of all things' (which I think will be the most impressive scene in the trilogy) will be also in the final third of the movie. Not to mention all the stuff Aragorn and co is doing. (Paths of the Dead, (which im not too sure about either, where are they located in middle earth??), Voice of Saruman, Pellenor Fields, the Pyre of Denethor, etc etc)... woah, listing these i'm starting to wonder how they're going to fit it all in. [/SPOILER]

And they'd BETTER have the [SPOILER] Well, i'm Back [/SPOILER] line in the movie, even if it occurs [SPOILER] When Sam meets Elenor in the Road outside his house (there was a photo of this), instead of inside,like in the book. He could be hugging her and say the line, with tears running down his face, pan out to a loverly shot of the shire fade out roll credits the end honk honk so sad (i'm serious). That would be the perfect ending. [/SPOILER]

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If it's as good as the first two I say the more the better.

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I'm pretty sure RotK is the shortest book in the trilogy, and they are also leaving out the [SPOILER] Scouring of the Shire [/SPOILER]. Still, there is a lot left unresolved from the TTT movie - they ended it about 3 chapters too early for both storylines, Aragorn's and Frodo's. The first half-hour of RotK will be from the TTT book, probably. If I remember right, there is a [SPOILER] battle at the Black Gates, but we don't see much - Pippin passes out just as the Eagles arrive [/SPOILER].
Remember, if the movie is 3 1/2 hours, think how long the extended edition will be!

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[SPOILER] What about KING ELESSAR. (aragorn being crowned) i hope we see that in the movies. [/SPOILER]

I would have honoured you my Brother; my Captain; my KING - Boromir to Aragorn.

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I see in your eyes,
the same fear that would take the heart of me.....
A day may come, when the courage of men fails.....
When we forsake our friend....
and break all bonds of fellowship....
but it is not this day....
This day WE FIGHT.

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[SPOILER] I thought Aragorn was the reason they called it RotK? [/SPOILER] What do you reckon?!


Pippin: Maybe Treebeard's right. We don't belong here, Merry. It's too big for us. What can we do in the end? We've got the Shire. Maybe we should go home.

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clauda said:

[SPOILER] I thought Aragorn was the reason they called it RotK? [/SPOILER] What do you reckon?!
That's a kinda "duh" thing

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The longer the better as well from my point of view BUT... Considering the disruption of people getting up to go to the bathroom 'n such maybe this could be one of those films with an intermission? They used to do that back in the day - I remember watching "Out of Africa" as a kid and there being an intermission.

- for those who don't budget their drinks well
I realize that could be a problem for the flow of the movie so it would have to be planned perfectly.

- just a thought

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I was visiting some freinds for Christmas and we went to see Two towers and they had an intermission, so I guess they could do the same thing. I guess there's no built in intermission, it was just the theater doing it

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Snow Bird said:

The longer the better as well from my point of view BUT... Considering the disruption of people getting up to go to the bathroom 'n such maybe this could be one of those films with an intermission? They used to do that back in the day - I remember watching "Out of Africa" as a kid and there being an intermission.

- for those who don't budget their drinks well
I realize that could be a problem for the flow of the movie so it would have to be planned perfectly.

- just a thought


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Depends might be a goode idea, but just imagine the smell at the end of 3 1/2 hrs!!

And yes, I hae to go and see Ghandi in the theatre...twas a class trip, that was gruesome!...and there hae been an intermission.

Hey, at the end of FotR, I was all set to keep sittin for another 6 or so hours!!!!!! Another whole year, your sure??!!

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I say...bring on the marathon!!!!

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I'd DEFINITLY sit for at LEAST 5 hours...that's what this movie deserves, anyway. And they better not leave out any parts...except for maybe [SPOILER] the Grey Havens...I'd be perfectly happy if we just saw the hobbits all enter the Shire and there we go...no sadness, no 'Well, I'm back'...just plain happiness. [/SPOILER] But then, I cried in 'Ice Age' and 'The First Pokemon Movie' so maybe it's just me with my earth-sized heart.
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Or hand out Depends.


ROTF!! Good one! I think there's a product tie-in deal there

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maccom said:

And they better not leave out any parts...except for maybe [SPOILER] the Grey Havens...I'd be perfectly happy if we just saw the hobbits all enter the Shire and there we go...no sadness, no 'Well, I'm back'...just plain happiness. [/SPOILER]


If they left out [SPOILER] The Grey Havens - and they won't, PJ said that is where the last scene takes place [/SPOILER] Then it would leave out one of the deppest messages in the novels, which, i think, (correct me if i'm wrong) is that [SPOILER] they can never go back to the life they had before, they've been forever changed by these events, for the worse, even. [/SPOILER]. Not to mention it would be a complete bastardization of tolkiens novels.

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hey maccom. Guess who?? (HINT still counting jk)

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