this should be epic, and for the guy saying jackson screwed up the trilogy, the theatrical version was 558 minutes for all three, roughly 3 hours a piece. That's much longer than most people who go to the movies want their movies to be, i've noticed most of the more popular movies were about an hour and a half long, the occasional 2 hour long movie if it was good/had hot female actresses/etc. Now, the extended version is 683 minutes long, basically 30 minutes to each movie. But if he would have added everything into the movies, you would have to tack on atleast another hour a movie imo. some of it was also budget, having the army of the dead wtfpwn all the orcs at minas tirith costs less than having to have that many people (and computers would still have to beef them up) for them to take on the corsairs, it also creates a timely stop, i havent read it recently, but the battle lasted all day, with important parts spread out, the oathbreakers doing the above mentioned pwning gave a quick, final, and grandiose end to the siege.
