LotR: FotR DVD News!

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Confirmed, the Special Edition DVD will contain an additional 30 orgasmic inducing minutes of footage! Haha!

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/356/356226p1.html

*March 26, 2002 - New Line Cinema just announced the full specs and release date for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on DVD. The DVD will street on August 6 for a MSRP of $29.99 and will hold the following features in a two-disc set:
Three behind-the-scenes featurettes:
-“Welcome to Middle-earth” (an in-store special shown by Houghton Mifflin).
-“The Quest for the Ring” (30-minute special originally shown on the FOX Network).
-“A Passage to Middle-earth” (60-minute special originally shown on the SCI-FI Channel).

15 featurettes originally created for lordoftherings.net. These take you deep inside Middle Earth and include interviews with cast members Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler as well as members of the crew. Each one originally was shown as a streaming video or a quicktime file, so now you have them in the form of high-quality video.

Exclusive 10-minute behind-the-scenes preview of the next The Lord of the Rings theatrical release, The Two Towers.

Enya’s “May It Be” music video.

An inside look at the Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring that streets on November 12, 2002.

Preview of Electronic Arts’ video game, The Two Towers.

3D Animated Menus (see below).

DVD ROM Features that lead you to exclusive online content.

Audio will be in Dolby Digital EX (sorry DTS fans).

Releasing November 12, the 4-disc Special Extended Edition contains an additional 30 minutes of the film not seen in the theatrical version.

**Some of the additional scenes include:

More time with the Hobbits including a musical number. Extra scene further underscores the Hobbits sense of isolation and the growing realization that they can’t ignore the outside world for much longer.

Frodo and Sam POV watching the elves going to the “Undying Land”

When the Hobbits are sleeping, Frodo is awakened by Aragorn’s signing of an elvish tune that foreshadow’s his relationship with Arwen

More at Rivendell with Aragorn

More on the departure of the Fellowship from Rivendel

More in the Mines before the cave troll fight

Gifting scene … as the Fellowship leaves, Galadriel gives them each a personalized gift that will end up being critical to their future. Legolas gets a special bow, Sam gets some elvin rope that comes in handy when he faces a giant spider in The Two Towers, and a touching moment between Gimli and Galadriel.

The extended edition will likely receive an “R”-rating , not due to excessive gore but about 30 seconds of extra violence in the Battle of Amon Hen.**

Two discs contain the film and the remaining two discs add up to more than six hours of additional content. Among the content will be Peter Jackson’s commentary. More details to come on the exact nature of the extras content as New Line is still finalizing the details.

Finally, there is an awesome Collector’s DVD Gift Set also streeting on November 12 that looks amazing. It is a huge, gorgeous box designed by the legendary Alan Lee. The gift set contains the 4-disc version, two bookend statuettes by sculptor Sideshow Weta, the National Geographic “Beyond The Movie” DVD, and several collectible Decipher game cards. No word on price as of this writing. We’ll update as we receive the info.*
In case you missed it the first time…

**Some of the additional scenes include:

More time with the Hobbits including a musical number. Extra scene further underscores the Hobbits sense of isolation and the growing realization that they can’t ignore the outside world for much longer.

Frodo and Sam POV watching the elves going to the “Undying Land”

When the Hobbits are sleeping, Frodo is awakened by Aragorn’s signing of an elvish tune that foreshadow’s his relationship with Arwen

More at Rivendell with Aragorn

More on the departure of the Fellowship from Rivendel

More in the Mines before the cave troll fight

Gifting scene … as the Fellowship leaves, Galadriel gives them each a personalized gift that will end up being critical to their future. Legolas gets a special bow, Sam gets some elvin rope that comes in handy when he faces a giant spider in The Two Towers, and a touching moment between Gimli and Galadriel.

The extended edition will likely receive an “R”-rating , not due to excessive gore but about 30 seconds of extra violence in the Battle of Amon Hen.**
Holy Shit! OMG! I can’t believe it! It’s true! More Rivendell! More Hobbits scenes! More Moria! The full Gift giving scene! More character development! Yeehaw!
:smiley:

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Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring? Never heard of it, anybody no where I can find out more about this?

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or…

“…anybody know where I can find out more?”

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Great. So the first DVD comes out on August 6 but the one with the extra footage doesn’t arrive til November 12? Does the November 12 release have the extra material from the August 6 one? (Sigh.) Why do they do things this way? :confused:

(Yes, I know. Get us to buy the DVD twice. Sigh.)

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The Lord of the Rings was a fantasy book written by an English fellow named J.R.R. Tolkien back in the 1940s. The book was so large in scope that the publishers decided to release it in three different volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.

Here is a summation of what happens:

*The Fellowship of the Ring

The story starts in the Shire, a rural, idyllic area, in which Frodo, a hobbit - their own native word for halfling -, heir of his uncle Bilbo, is told by Gandalf, the wizard, about the hidden powers of the ring he inherited from. It is a ring of extreme power, forged by the lord of all evil, Sauron, and an item capable of granting him, who has just stirred from banishment again, the power to conquer the world and lay it in ashes. Three rings of good and nine of evil can be controlled by the one ruling Ring, but as the Ring corrupts and seduces those near it, and as it seeks its master, the Dark Lord, the only possibility is to destroy it where it was created, in Mount Doom, deep in Mordor, the shadow-land of the enemy. Frodo travels, all the time persecuted and looked for by black riders of the enemy, together with his fellow hobbits Samwise, Peregrin and Meriadoc, later joined by the mysterious ranger Aragorn, called Strider, towards Rivendell.

There, in the council of Elrond Half-Elven, Frodo accepts the duty of journeying to Mordor; and the company formed by Gandalf, Frodo, Sam, Pippin, Merry, Aragorn, Legolas the elf, Gimli the dwarf and Boromir of Gondor, the land closest to Mordor, departs. On their way to the enchanted Elven wood of Lórien, they lose Gandalf in a fight against a demon in the mines of Moria underneath the Misty Mountains. Aragorn acts as their leader from now on and the company re-supplies in Lórien and travels down the river Anduin by boat. On an island in the river, Boromir tries to convince Frodo of giving him the ring, and when he assaults him, Frodo flees from the company, joined by Sam. Boromir is immediately afterwards killed by orcs when defending the remaining two hobbits, who are captured and taken away.

The Two Towers

During a quarrel among the orcs, Merry and Pippin flee into the forest of Fangorn, where with the help of the Ent - a tree-creature- Treebeard, they are able to cause the forest to rise and attack Isengard, the fortress of treacherous Saruman the wizard. At first, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli encounter riders of Rohan, and later the returned Gandalf in new splendour. In Edoras, they stir the King of the Mark, Théoden, from the influence of Gríma Wormtongue and to fight against Saruman. They take a stance at Helm´s Deep which they defend successfully. In Isengard, they meet the hobbits again and the Ents who are tearing down its walls, overthrowing Saruman.

Frodo and Sam, on their way towards Mordor, capture Gollum, the former ring-owner, who followed them secretly to regain his precious ring. With him as a guide, they bypass the closed gate to Mordor and head south. Gollum, twisted between loyalty to Frodo due to the vow he had to swear on the Ring, and craving for its possession, finally leads them, after a while they spent with rangers of Gondor, into a trap in the pass of Cirith Ungol. There, Shelob, the giant spider, poisons Frodo, who is taken away by orcs, leaving Sam with the Ring.

The Return of the King

While Gandalf and Pippin head for Minas Tirith, Aragorn, who has just revealed himself as the rightful heir of the long deserted throne of Gondor, takes the Paths of the Dead southwards, together with his retinue of rangers and Gimli and Legolas. Théoden rides with Merry towards Dunharrow to muster the Rohan army. These riders appear just in time as Minas Tirith is already besieged by Sauron´s forces. In the battle of the Pellenor fields Théoden King is slain, but, in turn, his niece Éowyn fells the enemy army leader, the Lord of the Ringwraiths. Together with King Aragorn, who appears backed up by undead bonded to him by an old vow, the tide is turned in favour of the defenders of Minas Tirith. In the city, where Denethor the Steward burnt himself before, Aragorn heals the wounded and then rallies an army to march towards the Black Gate of Mordor. On a hill, they stand their ground in the decisive final battle. In the tower of Cirith Ungol, Sam is able to help Frodo to escape, and they continue their journey through the wasteland of Mordor to Mount Doom, where they meet Gollum again. Frodo refuses to sacrifice the Ring to the flames in the chambers of fire beneath the mountain, but Gollum bites off his finger, and, in his joy, falls into the abyss. With the Ring destroyed, Sauron´s Dark Tower collapses and its master vanishes. After being honoured on the field of Cormallen, the hobbits return back to the Shire, only to see it controlled by Saruman, whom, now powerless, they have to drive off first, and who is then killed by his follower. The last ever to be seen of Frodo in Middle-earth is his sailing into the west with the other ringbearers, leaving, besides others, a married Sam and an enthroned Aragorn behind.*

Hope that clears things up for you Tretiak. :wink:

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No wonder they left out the gifting scene! Where’s Sam’s box of dirt? Where’s the flower bulb? I don’t remember Legolas getting a bow, does anybody else? (Actually, I really can’t remember what he got, the hobbit-fancier!) Gimli’s “touching scene with Galadriel” better include some barbering, as far as I’m concerned!

And yeah, who do I write this check out to?

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I’m not going to demand the extra stuff, but I would like to know: Will the film be released in VHS at all? Because if it isn’t, I’m SOL.:frowning:

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Sam didn’t get a flower bulb, he got an acorn-like seed for a mallorn tree.

And yes, Legolas did get a bow (strung with elf-hair, IIRC). Aragorn got a new scabbard foe Anduril (nee Narsil), Frodo got a special reusable Glo-Stik[sup]TM[/sup], Boromir got a belt, and I can’t remember what Merry and Pippin got (unless it was a couple of daggers).

And you can send the check to me, if you’d like. Add sixty bucks for shipping and handling, and I’ll Fed-Ex it to ya. :smiley:

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Will they really submit it to the MPAA for rating when this version will never see a theater?

Most DVD extras are packaged as “bonus material not rated.”

He should have saved the recipt so he could get a new one after it stopped working.

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Was there a whole lot of whooshing going on here?

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Err a, “whooshing”? Not sure what you mean by that Toadie. :wink:

*whoosh Pronunciation Key (hwsh, wsh, hwsh, wsh) also woosh (wsh, wsh)
n.
A sibilant sound: the whoosh of the high-speed elevator.
A swift movement or flow; a rush or spurt. *
:wally

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tanstaafl : I generally dont like it when they have the “extra special” DVDs following the normal DVD release. For example, I waited forever for The Princess Bride and got it as soon as it was out on DVD. what do they do? release a special DVD later :frowning:

But in this case, we know how much longer we have to wait and (in general) what we get for waiting so we can decide.

I’ll probably rent the August one and buy the November one.

(I read somewhere else that the bookends would be the Argonath statues…very tempting)

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I’d be more excited about this, but I just know that eight months after The Return of the King is released they’re going to come out with the LOTR uber DVD box set. Why buy it now?

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True, but I just can’t wait 3 friggin’ years! I wan’t it NOW! Or at least in November. :wink:

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Does most of the extra stuff sound like crap to you people? TV specials that were blatant advertisements for the movie! More plugs for the November release and a video game! Interviews with those fascinating people–ACTORS! Musical numbers with Hobbits and Rangers! GAAAAAAAAK!

What you will want is New Line’s equivalent to Columbia/TriStar’s Superbit Collection DVD, if they ever do it, with DTS sound, expanded video bandwidth, AND NO CRAP!

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Dropzone does have a point that all DVD special features tend to be self congratulatory. Just once I would like to hear a director criticize an actor or himself for lousy on-set decisions. On the other hand it is kind of neat to learn about the decision making process that went into a scene.

The real appeal of the second and third tier of the FotR DVD is the added scenes (into the movie (I hope) not as a “deleted scene” special feature like most DVDs) which will flesh out the story that much more.

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I hate it when they mess with the plot. In the book, Sam actually steals the magical elven rope from Galadriel’s evil twin sister, Beruthiel.

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In what book? This is the passage in The Fellowship Of The Ring:

Three small grey boats had been made ready for the travellers, and these the Elves stowed their goods. And they added also coils of rope, three to each boat. Slender they looked, but strong, silken to the touch, grey of hue like the elven-cloaks.
‘What are these?’ asked Sam, handling one that lay upon the green-sward.
‘Ropes indeed!’ answered an Elf from the boats. ‘Never travel far wihout a rope! And one that is long and strong and light. Such are these. They may be a help in many needs.’
‘You don’t need to tell me that!’ said Sam. ‘I came without any, and I’ve been worried ever since. But I was wondering what these were made of, knowing a bit about rope-making; it’s in the family as you might say.’
‘They are made of hithlain,’ said the Elf, ‘but there is no time now to instruct you in the art of their making. Had we known that this craft delighted you, we could have taught you much. But now alas! unless you should at some time return hither, you must be content with our gift. May it serve you well!’

Jackson might have changed things around a bit out of necessity, but either way, I don’t know of an “evil sister” (?) of Galadriel giving Sam anything.

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Or Sam stealing anything from her.

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Who wants to say it?