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<blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 1293886" data-attributes="member: 2020">A fate worse than deathRemember folks, that the original company Peter Jackson signed up with demanded he produce a single, 2 hour film, to cover the entirety of LOTR.&nbsp; LOTR - FOTR, TTT, ROTK - in 2 hours?&nbsp; There are some places even my warped imagination won't go, and that's one of them.&nbsp; New Line was more reasonable ... they wanted two 2 hour films.&nbsp; Another place my imagination does not want to go.&nbsp; Then, they upped it to three 2 hour films.&nbsp; Still as horrible as Mordor, but at least I can imagine the disaster, and shudder at it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Finally, New Line upped it to three 3 hour films, and we got LOTR.&nbsp; Crammed, rushed, theatrical LOTR, but at least it WAS Lord of the Rings.&nbsp; You do realize they could make six full length feature films out of Peter Jackson's material, don't you?&nbsp; Each of these films would be well over 2 hours long.&nbsp; A great deal of footage was not included in the Extended Versions on DVD, and by this I'm referring to worthwhile footage like the Company battling the Orcs outside Lothlorien.&nbsp; Add that in, and I think we have our six films.&nbsp; Heck, add in the Old Forest, Tom Bombadil, and the Barrow-Downs, and the first of the six films would be 3 hours long again!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Edena_of_Neith, post: 1293886, member: 2020"] [b]A fate worse than death[/b] Remember folks, that the original company Peter Jackson signed up with demanded he produce a single, 2 hour film, to cover the entirety of LOTR. LOTR - FOTR, TTT, ROTK - in 2 hours? There are some places even my warped imagination won't go, and that's one of them. New Line was more reasonable ... they wanted two 2 hour films. Another place my imagination does not want to go. Then, they upped it to three 2 hour films. Still as horrible as Mordor, but at least I can imagine the disaster, and shudder at it. Finally, New Line upped it to three 3 hour films, and we got LOTR. Crammed, rushed, theatrical LOTR, but at least it WAS Lord of the Rings. You do realize they could make six full length feature films out of Peter Jackson's material, don't you? Each of these films would be well over 2 hours long. A great deal of footage was not included in the Extended Versions on DVD, and by this I'm referring to worthwhile footage like the Company battling the Orcs outside Lothlorien. Add that in, and I think we have our six films. Heck, add in the Old Forest, Tom Bombadil, and the Barrow-Downs, and the first of the six films would be 3 hours long again! [/QUOTE]

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