Chris and I watched the extended edition of Fellowship of the Ring this afternoon for the first time. I’d sort of thought I might wait until I had all three extended editions and then watch them back to back, but I probably couldn’t handle that much Tolkien in one sitting. I really liked the extended version of Fellowship, even though the film’s now something around three and a half hours. There were several things that I thought ought to have been explained or dealt with more in the theatrical version that got their fair share of time in the extended edition. I also hadn’t seen any version of Fellowship since 2002, so it was fun to watch it again. (The extended edition of Two Towers is on its way from Amazon right now.)