Never considered the remastering. You wouldn't think they'd be short sighted enough to only master the extended editions at DVD res do you?

Are the extended versions actually better, though?

I saw Fellowship at the cinema twice, then watched the extended DVD. So convinced was I that I didn't see Towers or RotK at the cinema, I waited for the extended DVD releases instead.

Bear in mind that I was willing RoTK to FUCKING HURRY UP AND END ALREADY when I saw it in the cinema.

I claim: four hours at home with a pause button is much more palatable than three hours in a cinema.

Bear in mind that I was willing RoTK to FUCKING HURRY UP AND END ALREADY when I saw it in the cinema.

Memo to directors: when you kill Godzilla, END YOUR FUCKING FILM.

Thread retool!

Secret back story of Tom Bombadil REVEALED!

Thread retool!

Secret back story of Tom Bombadil REVEALED!

'...brownies, fays, pixies, leprawns, and what else are they not called, for their number is very great... they were born before the world and are older than its oldest, and are not of it, but laugh at it much...'

'Do you think Tom Bombadil, the spirit of the (vanishing) Oxford and Berkshire countryside, could be made into the hero of a story?'

So there you go. He was a giant pixie.

Oh dear fucking God this.

Wasn't helped by the fact that it seemed to end about five times, each one shittier than the ending before it.

Memo to directors: when you kill Godzilla, END YOUR FUCKING FILM. A brief scene of the whole Rebel Alliance lining up to watch Princess Leia hang medals around your heroes' necks while awesome music plays is THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE ADDITION.

Hey, some people like to follow football or throwball or cricket.. I do Tolkien.

To me, this was always most unsatisfying; to my most nonliterary mind at least, there were surely better ways of wrapping up the whole yarn than this?

LotR was designed as a folk talke because britain didn't have enough.

"We loved The Hobbit, John. Could you write a sequel?"
"Aye, why not. I'll give it a go"

...

500000 words later

...

"There you go."
"Erm... thanks. WTF?"

"We loved Star Wars, George. Can you release them for the last time ever again?"

"Oh fuck, yeah."

Lord of the Rings was a book written by a man asked to write a book. It wasn't written with any intention other than that. Read the 4 accompanying dry as a corpse collections of his work in progress drafts for proof of this. After it was published Tolkien loved to over-analyse it in the letters he wrote, which you can also read in a collection unentertainingly edited by his boring son Christopher.