Hi guys, I’m an ex crew member from the trilogy (not the hobbits). We shot ALOT of stuff that never made the Final Cut, including some ultra violent battle stuff reminiscent of PJs early splatter stuff. One day we may see an edition with a higher age rating. Happy to answer any questions anybody has, cheers from NZ

@30AndHatingIt

8 ай бұрын

I’ve got a LOTR long form project in the pipeline, I’ll probably take you up on that offer sometime soon.

@mythwest

8 ай бұрын

That’s so awesome! Any favorite scenes you’d like to share that you remember getting shot and didn’t make the cut?

@honeybadger1810

8 ай бұрын

Is there a lot of stuff that was polished and turned into fully produced scenes? Or is it all pretty rough? Do we get to see more of Sauron in the second age?

@eoinc9511

8 ай бұрын

@@mythwest we did a shot for the helms deep rampart sequence which was pretty cool and never made it- We had a prosthetic Uruk head full of brains and blood etc, the shot was at 48fps off speed , a CU of the head with an elf warrior behind him over his shoulder, the elf ran up and sliced the Uruk head and cleaved the top of the head off and black blood spurted everywhere. Very PJ, but never made the cut. It was second unit and PJ wasn’t there that day so idk how he felt about it, but the crew gathered around the monitor afterwards while the stunties were reviewing and whooped and hollered haha we must’ve watched it about ten times over until the first AD realised he had to move things along again 👍

@eoinc9511

8 ай бұрын

@@honeybadger1810 I don’t think there was many fully edited and graded stuff that didn’t make it to the extended trilogy, but you never know! There was TONNES more battle stuff, and more physical injuries than they admitted to lol

I would watch 1300 hours of Lord of the rings.

@jerryknuckles736

8 ай бұрын

Without question!! Arizona road trip.

@MrClaretMatt

8 ай бұрын

A lot of it will be alternate angles shot simultaneously , but I'm with you 100%

@1lovesvideos

8 ай бұрын

I have all three extended editions and would definitely want more

@brandonver-non7573

8 ай бұрын

Uncut, please. And ill do it in one sitting as Aru intended

@IndigoIndustrial

8 ай бұрын

Three hours a day for almost 14 and a half months. You could become fluent in Elven in that time.

If a 10+ hour cut came out I would watch it all. Each film.

@lapamful

4 ай бұрын

There's already 10 hr cuts of classic songs like Taking the Hobbits to Isengard on youtube. Must watch...

@Formally-known-Prince-Andrew

4 ай бұрын

​@lapamful what did you say?

@Healthy_Toki

4 ай бұрын

@@lapamful you can only rewatch those 10 hour cuts of Taking the Hobbits to Isengard a couple of times a week AT MOST. They're taking the hobbits they're taking the hobbits.

@RA10H56

3 ай бұрын

I would see them in the theaters, right now. I am desperate for quality movies

@kalebhopewilcom8876

2 ай бұрын

Honestly a movie series IMO was never good enough for something like LOTR there should have been no question that all stories told in Arda should be through a tv series. A movie series is just going to leave us wanting more more more at least when its starts as a tv series if the numbers are good enough we easily get that more more more. Now they will forever tiptoe around the idea of reshooting the LOTR to tell more of the story in a tv series. Which IMO should be done without question, yes it will be sad that we cant see those same actors but at the end of the day we want the story a good actor bringing a character to life really well is just a bonus that all actors/directors should aim for.

Peter Jackson and Warner Brothers underestimate how many more hours fans would eat up of this masterpiece of a trilogy.

Honestly, with theaters and studios struggling so much this is the perfect time to have things like a 6+ hour movie.

@njux1871

8 ай бұрын

there are plenty of 6+ hour movies. theatre's just can't afford showing these. they could show 2 and a half other films in that time instead of having a hall blocked with like 10-50 guests for 6 whole hours. Sure if we look at Love Exposure for example, it's a masterpiece, but the mainstream will duly ignore it in the west. so it had to be a massive IP. Like I guess Lord of the Rings. And even with LOTR I doubt that it would be a big success in the cinema unless it's actually a good cut. The Extended Edition already is bloated and has pacing issues. it had to work. but honestly at that point I'd just release it as a re-cut TV show on Netflix or something. Which would be a bummer though because LotR breaths the spirit of film and that feels lowkey like forcing Tolkien to split up his novel into three once more lol

@siroswaldfortitude5346

8 ай бұрын

release it, and they will come...

@shelleyking8450

8 ай бұрын

You mean THREE 6+ hour movies. When do we line up?

@mena94x3

8 ай бұрын

I would HAPPILY watch that in theaters.

@siroswaldfortitude5346

8 ай бұрын

@@mena94x3 agreed, tell your loved ones you are going away for a while, get to your destination, pitch a tent and bring enough food for a long quest...it would just be like going to accident and emergency.

I think it's inevitable that the unseen footage is someday released even if just as a bonus feature and not fully reinserted back into the movie.

@mythwest

8 ай бұрын

I certainly hope so. I don’t know of any other big IP like this that has such stores of great scenes. It’s always just a few sub par deleted scenes leftover for other movies

@adam3647

8 ай бұрын

If all else fails and the suits in charge deny us this gift, you know some non-suit guy will one day bust that vault open when this world is nothing but an apocalyptic wasteland. I just hope it's one of us and they have enough working tech to watch and enjoy it.

@kevinfelix2543

8 ай бұрын

the amount of mentions for the 25th anniversary i think seals the deal

@tacticalyeti007

8 ай бұрын

I think this would be better

@generalsmite7167

8 ай бұрын

I hope so

If they made it a MAX miniseries, they would absolutely embarrass Amazon with the numbers Peter Jackson's Extended Extended LotR would do against Prime's RoP.

@giffordsamuelson2163

Күн бұрын

Watching this would take a life-age of men

@SC10NCE

Күн бұрын

@@giffordsamuelson2163 Therein the difference. I would happily surrender my life watching Peter Jackson's Ultra Extended Lord of the Rings Television Series. But I would angrily take a life if I were forced to watch one minute, nay, even 30 seconds of Amazon's extremely putrid Rings of Power.

For a film series released more than 20 years ago, the amount of interest and alive excitement are incredible. Your idea is awesome by the way

@mythwest

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@Cpt.Zer0

4 ай бұрын

What are you talking about, 1980 was 20 years ago...

The main things I would want to see of the unused footage are: 1. The young Aragorn and Arwen scene 2. Arwen and Elrond visiting Galadriel in Lothlorien in the Two Towers (Maybe edit it, so it seems Arwen is the one who convinces the elves to go help Aragorn and Rohan) 3. Eowyn defending the women and children in Helms Deep after Orcs break in 4. Faramir seeing Frodo become like Gollum 5. Eowyn and Faramir's wedding 6. The extended epilogue for Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas 7. The extended prologue where we see Gil-Galad become grilled-Galad

@Phodis

8 ай бұрын

I hear Aowen fought at Helms deep in some footage somewhere to.... that'd be great as well.

@brewster_4

8 ай бұрын

@@Phodis You can actually still see her in one shot of the movie

@Phodis

8 ай бұрын

@@brewster_4 NO WAY!!!... really?... I haven't noticed her even briefly!. Any idea ~roughly where to look out for her?.. I'd love to check that out.

@brewster_4

8 ай бұрын

@@Phodis kzread.info/dash/bejne/oHufy6RriJufqco.html 4:50 is the timestamp

@brewster_4

8 ай бұрын

@@salvohatteras8327 it would be cool to see at least, and it would give Arwen more agency in the story

On the 50th anniversary of Professor Tolkins death some German cinemas played all 3 Extended LOTR films back to back with only a 30 min pause between them. I can confirm that a 13 hours of LOTR is physicaly unpleasant but worth your time.

@AnnaMarianne

8 ай бұрын

I do that at home sometimes - just marathon through all the extended editions. Yes, it gets unpleasant near the end, but it's a cool thing to do.

@alassera

7 ай бұрын

Idk, I do this at home every year and it's the best way to spend a day-off. Once I even tried to watch all Hobbit movies + all LOTR movies. But the extended editions are something around 24 hours nonstop and I fell asleep somewhere in the middle of RotK

@quigonjinn4018

6 ай бұрын

I've just been to the cinema. There was a Lord of The Rings marathon today (not the extended edition) in IMAX. It was amazing to see the movies on the big screen bc the movies came out when I was a baby so I was never able to see them in a cinema.

@user-nz6dx2fj6h

6 ай бұрын

Ironically though, he and the rest of the Tolkien family loathed the films, so typical Germans getting it wrong again!

@spiderpyrozegreat4771

6 ай бұрын

@@user-nz6dx2fj6h he didn’t even see them and one only said that they most likely would be too close to the books for his taste

The best cinema experience I've ever had was when RotK was new and a local one had a whole LotR marathon deal. I got to watch all three movies back to back (with a 15min or so pause after each) in the cinema. It took all day and we left for home at night. I felt like I was totally transported away into another world. If they released a 6hr cut for each I'd do it all again.

@gladiatorscoops4907

3 ай бұрын

I dont know if it's considered sad but the day me and about 5 buddies had the day off from the gf's and watched all 3 of the extended editions in one day, ordering pizza b4 ROTK is still one of my favourite days ever.

@jonathanhighland4507

3 ай бұрын

Me and a buddy did the same thing, the tickets were like 25 bucks and they played the extended versions of fellowship and two towers if I remember correctly. Then the midnight premiere of rotk. Fed us outback during the intermissions. Theatre was packed out

@zaxmaxlax

3 ай бұрын

I do random marathons with my cousins at least twice a year. LoTR, Hobbit, harry potter, star wars, back to the future, Godfather, matrix...

I have a fun personal connection to the LOTR trilogy that relates to unused footage. My dad worked on one of the behind the scenes featurettes for the Extended DVD release of The Two Towers. If I recall, he did the one about the VFX for Gollum. You'll see his name as "David Spell" if you check the credits. He told me a funny story about his time working on it. During production of the DVD bonus features, Weta had apparently LOST some of the hard-drives with the behind-the-scenes footage they were going to provide to the editors. Of course, these lost drives had exactly what my dad needed to cut the piece. He had to creatively edit by making use of what little he had. For example, he would have to use shots for B-roll that were unrelated to what the speaker was talking about. Anyways, my dad has a friend who worked on the Return of the King behind-the-scenes sometime afterward my dad wrapped on the Two Towers featurette. While working on ROTK, his friend told him that Weta had FOUND the lost hard drives of footage that my dad could have used on his piece. My dad only worked on the features for Two Towers, so he never was able to use that footage. Oh well, lol. I know this video relates to unseen footage that could've appeared in the final film, but there's probably a good amount of footage out there was planned for the DVD bonus features but was never used (unless maybe they repurposed some for the ROTK features, I dunno). I know this is a "trust me bro" kind of story, but I thought it was a fun story to share related to this topic. I was really young when my dad worked on this, so LOTR has a very special place in my life because of my dad's contribution to the trilogy. Seeing this video reminded me of it.

@mythwest

8 ай бұрын

That’s so dang cool! I bet having a dad work on Lotr was an epic flex on your friends growing up haha

@SpellcasterMedia

8 ай бұрын

@@mythwest Most of my friends were uncultured growing up and didn't see the trilogy until recently, lol. I've been starting to tell this story more in recent years :)

@juletaurus

8 ай бұрын

Very cool!

I’d absolutely watch eighteen hours straight of LotR footage with my friends 😅

@tayzk5929

8 ай бұрын

Same!

@HisEntropicHighness

8 ай бұрын

I would watch it all alone. Friends talk too much.

@GenJuhru

8 ай бұрын

Play it in the background 3-4 times in a week, people would probably think I'm going thru midlife crisis or something. 😆

The 1300 hours includes the endless retakes of the scenes we got. Also, you might run the risk of being disillusioned if you see the extra footage's quality of acting and writing and realizing that the scenes we got were the absolute creme de la creme of the entire bunch. Film also degrades over time so Warner better hurry digitizing their vaults :-).

@MrChickennugget360

8 ай бұрын

definitely a concern.

@lancem8713

8 ай бұрын

Very good points, that were overlooked in this video

@BobCakez

8 ай бұрын

With all the endless retakes and alternate angles, I’d be surprised if there’s much more than 30 minutes tops across the trilogy of completely new material. Plus a lot will be crowd scenes, might be interesting to see, but still just different shots of the same battle, not narrative.

@scratchy996

8 ай бұрын

They store it in places that slow down degradation considerably. That's how they could re-release Star Wars after so many years.

@smith9808

8 ай бұрын

2:25 - come on he said it here!

I would GLADLY watch a 6-7 hour ultra-extended edition!

@pRahvi0

3 ай бұрын

Considering there used to be at least one (several hours long) edit in KZread where Sam monologues over his every step further away from home, and it found audience, I'd find if strange if something new and actually watchable did not.

Baz Luhrman just turned his 2008 movie Australia into a mini series featuring all his unused material, and it works surprisingly well. I so hope PJ does it with LOTR.

*millions of fans band together to get the Snyder cut* Film execs: "THAT STILL ONLY COUNTS AS ONE"

I'd love to see the Eowyn and Faramir wedding scenes.

@mythwest

8 ай бұрын

Faramir deserves it 🫡

@annafdd

8 ай бұрын

Me too!

Honestly the biggest gripe about the movies is the exclusion of the Gray Company. Aragorns kin and the Twins would have been epic! Unfurling of the Standard of Gondor at the battle of Pelenor Fields would have been awesome.

Christ, just the thought of it makes me anxious and borderline angry - it's like a treasure trove of cultural heritage, kept away in the deep caves under WB warehouses. I'd totally watch it, and the concept of new LotR music from master Shore puts a big smile on my face.

Years back I met a guy who had been an extra on LoTR throughout shooting. He told me he was in scenes with "major characters" and, at that time - TRotK had not been released yet - he had never appeared on screen. That would suggest there is a LOT of unreleased footage. He was in the front of the crowd in the Aragorn-Arwen wedding scene and told me to look for him when it was released.

@mythwest

8 ай бұрын

Dangggg that’s crazy, that would be so disappointing to be in it and then get cut lol For his sake it would be awesome to see more of that scene!

@tkbywatr

8 ай бұрын

I was an extra in Born to be Blue and the same thing happened, you dont have to talk to many movie extras to hear lots and lots of similar stories.

I'd go to the theater to watch a 5 or 6hr movie IF they have at least 2 intermissions.

@clarkneedsaweapon

8 ай бұрын

Just 1 even!!

@keykiq

8 ай бұрын

1 would be fine

@Forced2DoThis1

8 ай бұрын

@@keykiq True. I was thinking two in difference of those modern folks that would need to head out more often. Less chance of people disturbing the experience at random if they know there are expected and timed breaks. lol

There is a still image of Aragorn healing Faramir in the House of Healing which should have been a proper scene. He see him tending to Arwen but not Faramir, as in the book. It would also be a great conclusion to the character arc, because he could not save Boromir but could save his brother.

@mythwest

4 ай бұрын

What the heck that is a perfect character arc, we gotta have that scene

Always wanted to see the goblins Chase the fellowship to Lothlorien. The trailer had Legolas turn around to fire an arrow back as well as - if I remember correctly - Aragorn being startled by an elf arrow

I remember seeing a very brief BTS shot in one of the hundreds of promo videos on TV of a few Lothlorien elves walking past some Orc corpses riddled with white-fletched arrows. I suspect that's a clip from the excised Lothlorien assault. And I remember thinking "Man I have to wait 20 years for these to eventually come out"...well, it's PAST 20 years and I'm still waiting!

@strand7006

7 ай бұрын

2025

Richard Wagner's Ring cycle is a 4-day 15 hour event. I don't care how many hours a LOTR movie is, bring it on! Play it over several days if you have to, no true fan cares how long it takes to watch, we want it all!!

@StrangerNoises

8 ай бұрын

tbf as it is *now*, when i decide to watch the extended editions again (approx every year), i set aside a long weekend...

@juletaurus

8 ай бұрын

We're GREEDY! :)

@nillynush4899

4 ай бұрын

Fitting since Wagner, the Nibelungenlied, Beowulf, King Arthur, the Poetic Eddas etc. directly inspired Tolkien's writings, and thus helped to create the modern high fantasy genre in the first place. Details matter, and good details take time to develop. Tolkien even created languages for his fictional universe, maximum effort is needed to do LOTR justice.

5:30 The scene Peter is talking about here is from "Return of the King" where Sam is trying to rescue Frodo from the Tower of Cirith Ungol and he has to use the Ring to pass through a magical barrier, guarded by three gargoyles called The Watchers. Peter said they had completely filmed the scene but for whatever reason (time, pacing, etc) they didn't include it. It's mentioned in the "Return of the King" Director's commentary.

I don’t think this will ever happen, but I want it so bad. That hour long video of deleted scenes is fascinating. There’s so much out there.

The Extended edition truly was what finally cemented for me that the Lord of the Rings is the best project ever put on film. We all knew that it was one of the best things that ever happened to cinema. But the way it keeps getting better and better the more you add to it......... its like an unfathomable masterpiece that we saw 10% of and we ALREADY knew it was a masterpiece by essentially looking through a door crack, with the majority of its excellence not even being known to us.

@CristiNeagu

8 ай бұрын

Best movie ever made. And seeing how things are going these days, it will probably be the best movie of all time.

@BrennanKill

8 ай бұрын

Agreed. When I first saw Return of the King in theaters I was a bit disappointed (my expectations were through the roof of course). However, the extended version is absolutely brilliant - I felt the theater cut had to remove so many parts that it came off feeling a bit rushed, the extended version by contrast is perfect!

@LockdLoaded619

7 ай бұрын

The extended edition convolutes an already well- done masterpiece. Most of the add- on scenes feel like just that, add ons. They ultimately degrade and dilute the original quality of the films.

@CristiNeagu

7 ай бұрын

@@LockdLoaded619 Don't be ridiculous.

@LockdLoaded619

7 ай бұрын

@@CristiNeagu What's so ridiculous about what I said? It's true for the most part. Most of the added scenes add nothing to the plot or the overall story and only bog the films down in triviality and silly light hearted humor not befitting of an epic trilogy.

Would absolutely love a mini series, I would buy the series at the drop of a hat. Warner would make a packet of money. They need to just do it. NOW!!!!!

@mythwest

8 ай бұрын

I would absolutely get a Max subscription if it drops

@user-nz6dx2fj6h

8 ай бұрын

So sticking to the story and lore mean nothing to you?

@richardmaurer9174

8 ай бұрын

@@user-nz6dx2fj6h The movies and the books are two separate things as is the case with every book that's ever been adapted for the screen. Why can't people understand what works as written word won't always work in a movie. The Scouring of the Shire is a great example, it would have destroyed the movie version of RotK. The important thing is Jackson stayed as true to the story as possible in a big budget movie from a major studio - and that is a miracle in and of itself. Look what Warner Bros. did to the Hobbit.

@JT-np1op

8 ай бұрын

@@user-nz6dx2fj6hwell its like this, either enjoy the films, or settle on absolutely no live action versions of it. And given the state of Hollywood, what we were given is a substantial product

@scratchy996

8 ай бұрын

@@user-nz6dx2fj6h You have the books for that. Moar LotR footage is just ... omg, Moar LotR Footage !!! After the disappointment of the last seasons of GoT and the failures that were the Witcher, Wheel of Time and The Rings of Power (had to look up the title for this one) , it's no wonder that everyone wants, nay NEEDS some more of the good stuff.

I was always curious about the cut scene of the Moria goblins following the Fellowship outside. I played a LOTR Two Towers videogame (forget the exact name) where they had a gallery of pictures from the movie and one of them was of goblins outside... i soon thought to myself "wait, in the movie we never see those guys outside of Moria, this must be cut content/purely promotional material" and finally +10 years later through this video i realize there was in fact a whole scene wirh them lost to time lol

Your audio quality being so good narrating over your edits to you chillin melts my brain

In the Fellowship the journey from the Moria exit to Lothlorien was meant to be more dramatic, with the army of Moria Goblins chasing them into the forest. Some of the footage from this sequence was used in the original trailers. I remember much of this sequence was used in the promotional material before the film's release such as magazine screenshots

@mythwest

8 ай бұрын

I’ve heard fans mentioning it, and that they were disappointed when it wasn’t included since it was featured so much in the trailer

@seanforrest7991

8 ай бұрын

I wanted to see that too, and it's in keeping with the book, but the reason Peter Jackson gave for cutting that makes sense: it would have detracted from the "death" of Gandalf and the heavy emotions of that moment for the Fellowship to suddenly have to run from goblins again. The film needed to slow down for a stretch.

@corinth492

8 ай бұрын

@@mythwest they must have put of time and effort into filming and developing the sequence considering how much of it was used in the promotional material

I think Peter should release this on DVD solely for FAN FOOD. To me I wouldn't care if it went for 10 hours+..before they even get out of hobbiton lol... but seriously, this would sell very well as millions of movie LOTR fans would really gobble this up. I'd LOVE to see new angles on the same scenes...re-takes, new footage...it wouldn't have to be seriously integrated into the movie per-say, but would enhance the actual movie when watched again, and would allow a video editing frenzy to kick in as the fans would love messing around with this stuff. It should be done when they release the new line movie "War of the rohirrim" movie in 2024. Can't wait for that one either.

@mythwest

8 ай бұрын

I’m super interested to see what they do with War of the Rohirrim!

@darkhighwayman1757

8 ай бұрын

we would all buy it.

@tayzk5929

8 ай бұрын

I agree! Release all of it and take my money!

@samuelleask1132

8 ай бұрын

This would be the best way to do it I reckon

@fen1x0r

8 ай бұрын

Nobody buys DVDs anymore. A miniseries released on one of the streaming platforms would make the most sense.

I really do hope this 25th Anniversary Edition comes out! I always felt that as awesome as the trilogy is, I also feel a lot was left outside both the Theatrical and Extended versions (understandibly considering cinema and stuff). Streaming this as a mini-series, as Mythwest mentioned, would be an excellent idea (also agree with bringing Howard Shore to compose a few tracks, like an intro), and maybe a few small things to be added, like the scenes mentioned, extended battles, perhaps expanding Saruman/Gandalf's true forms (I would assume this means bringing Ian McKellen for perhaps a narration about the matter). The only problem I see is... ...me not getting off the couch watching the whole thing in one sitting

Signed and shared. I've always wanted this. I just didn't know how much more footage there could be. Make it happen!

I always thought of the films, as was famously said about the book itself, was not that they were too long but that they were far too short. The book the lord of the rings was of course divided by the author in to 6 unnamed books not the three packaged together by the publisher. It would be natural to make a three hour or so long movie for each of these 6 books. Something like: Film 1: A shadow of the past Film 2: The ring goes south Film 3: The treason of Isengard Film 4: The ring goes east Film 5: The war of the ring Film 6: The end of the age

@Gamer_Man_Bathwater

8 ай бұрын

Yeah the movies are too short as proper adaptations of the book. They are as good as they could have been as 3 hour movies but they just leave out so much character development. A lot of characters like gimli and legolas get almost no character development. Even Aragorn doesn’t get very much. Not any fault of the movies, there’s just only so much you can do cramming a big book into a 3-4 hour movie.

@MrChickennugget360

8 ай бұрын

or i like these titles Shadow of the Past Fellowship of the Ring Treason of Isenguard The Road East The War of the Ring The Return of the King

@jalarasstudios414

8 ай бұрын

One dream job of mine is to make an animated adaption of each of the six books, and capture all the things that the Jackson trilogy had to leave out.

@EresirThe1st

8 ай бұрын

@@Gamer_Man_Bathwater Nah the films have a lot more character development than the books. Aragorn, Faramir, and others are extremely one-note in the books. Tolkien was great at worldbuilding but generally poor at characterisation.

@AnnaMarianne

8 ай бұрын

@@EresirThe1st His characterization was subtle and not in your face, but it wasn't at all poor. I love his deep nuanced take on the Frodo/Sam/Gollum triangle, and the exploration of the concept of the good/the better/the best. Sam is *right* to judge Gollum - Gollum deserves to be judged - but Frodo's merciful wish to save him is even *better.* Sam judges Gollum chiefly out of loyalty to Frodo, but him judging Gollum causes Frodo to fail to save Gollum, which in the end greatly contributes to Frodo himself falling to his hurt and despair and having to leave Middle-earth. So Sam's ferocious loyalty and protectiveness over Frodo ends up hurting Frodo and causing Sam to lose Frodo, as he leaves for good. Etc. Lots of great stuff going on. I especially love Tolkien's villainous and semi-villainous characters. He really understood the tragedy of evil, of fall and of failing to be restored to good. His heroic characters are really good, too. Aragorn for example is a great if not the greatest example of the classical Western idea of the ideal masculine man - a man who is not limited by his weakness from doing what he wants to do, nor is so out of his own control that he uses what abilities he has to just pursue his own selfish desires. He's not defined by what he doesn't have (power and the self-control of that power), but what he is and what he has (those exact things). Aragorn is ambitious, and capable of violence and of dominating others, but he simply chooses not to pursue his selfish goals, and instead uses his strength and ability help those who have neither. So he's also an example of the Servant Leader, a vital Western concept. And he's an exploration of privilege and power in as something positive and good. Yes, he is insanely privileged in a way no other human is, but his privilege is good and justified, because what he has is not *away* from others, it's a *benefit* for others too. He has power and he wants even more power and he ends up gaining more power than anyone else at that point - and it's a good thing. Power is not wrong. Aragorn is like the antithesis of the messed up view of masculinity, leadership and privilege of our time. Of course, all of this is neck deep in Christian/Catholic theology. Sam and Frodo's respective attitudes towards Gollum are reflections of the Justice vs Mercy conflict. Justice and Mercy are both right, but Mercy is a far more excellent path. And Frodo, Aragorn and Gandalf are the three faces of the Messiah: Gandalf is Messiah the God Incarnate, Aragorn is Messiah the human King, and Frodo is Messiah the Redeemer.

I would be for it in a heartbeat. No matter how expensive it would be and no matter how long. The more scenes there are to see, the better it would be. The Lord of the Rings has lost none of its magic. There won't be films like this again. Please Peter Jackson, do it. For the Peter Jackson Uncut Edition

@scratchy996

8 ай бұрын

The 3 seasons x 6 episodes series is a most excellent idea.

@blackredeye99

8 ай бұрын

@@scratchy996 I wouldn't care about the length. It might even be better as a miniseries. Anyone who knows the films would know very good scenes where an episode could end. But for now, the day must come when good Peter Jackson puts this into action under his watch

Viggo Mortensen says he remembers filming a scene with Liv Tyler’s Arwen where he’s dressed in elvish clothing and a bit younger looking and he wish he could have seen it on screen but was cut from the final thing. Wanted to see this

@mythwest

5 ай бұрын

Yeah the young Aragorn footage is top priority for me

There's only two cinematic experiences that give me a great sense of lifelong adventure and journey: Harry Potter and Lord of The Rings. Upon every viewing, when you finish both franchises, you feel extremely rewarded, like you completed an epic adventure and lived to tell the tale. Yet, you feel sad, like you've grown up and you have to say goodbye to these lifelong friends you experienced it all with. Lord of The Rings is especially impressive because it did this in only 3 movies/books. I could watch endless footage from that old Peter Jackson trilogy!

@jonathaningram8157

6 ай бұрын

I like both but Lord of The Ring is the closest thing we can have to a perfect trilogy. Harry Potter isn't.

@ComedyBros5

6 ай бұрын

@@jonathaningram8157 Oh yes I totally agree. Lord of the Rings will forever be in a league of its own. I’m so thankful it was done when it was before big studios began tremendously interfering with movie productions.

@MrVoland44

6 ай бұрын

​@@jonathaningram8157tbh HP its more of a series of 7 years living rather than one epic adventure. differe t things, and both of them did this perfectly

i would love to see gilgalad and elendil takes on sauron

@mythwest

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely! It would make Sauron even more menacing to see him take out Gil Galad

@JACKAL98

8 ай бұрын

I'm going on a quest to attack the Vaults of Arizona, will you join me?

@mythwest

8 ай бұрын

We need to find a burglar for the company

@Th3BigBoy

2 ай бұрын

​@@mythwest lmao

An extended mini series of all the footage well edited and put together would be a breath of fresh air in the sea of crap that has been produced in the fast few years. It would be so great.

Hell yes I would watch extra extended editions! These films are the best movies ever produced in the history of mankind!

I have been obsessed with this since I first saw the films (and books with unused scenes and costumes!) I have never clicked a video so fast in my life!

Give me my extra gil-galad scenes. Now.

You literally blew my mind! It would be the perfect marketing strategy for WB. In fact, do like two separate seasons for both LOTR and The Hobbit unused footages. In a time of shitty remakes, trash adaptions, and garbage returning sequels, this is what true fans of anything really deserve. Amazon Rings of Power was so pathetic that WE NEED THIS TO HAPPEN and show incompetent show runners how its done and to never ever criticize PJ and his legacy and ruin other IPs ever again!

@EresirThe1st

8 ай бұрын

I'd want The Hobbit's unused footage even more than LOTR tbh. Those cut scenes of Thranduil and Beorn would have been so good.

@mrsmarr3308

8 ай бұрын

Oh man I am tired of pretending the Rings of Power aren't decent. Holding them up against LOTR is insane -- and shouldn't be done! As an individual, separate show NOT compared to Peter Jackson, it holds up.

@AdioAurel

7 ай бұрын

And imagine getting a LotR massive extended edition without any wokeness.

@jasonlee0290

7 ай бұрын

@@mrsmarr3308 Well we're all tired of people pretending that it is a good show, which it is not. Comparable? Not in the slightest.. but ROP had the audacity to claim that they live up to Tolkien's legacy or even better. ROP is trash and everyone knows it.

@jasonlee0290

7 ай бұрын

@@AdioAurel Seriously! Something we all need!

have no idea why i was so fortunate to find this video! Absolutely mind blowing! Thank you!

@mythwest

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!!

They could re-release the films at 20 hours each, I would watch them all, over and over again!

Game of Thrones showed me and the world that 70hours is the new standard for wanting to see adventures and characters as we get to explore with them into so much depth no FILM could EVER come close, so now LOTR I-III seems to short to me...BRING ON THE 6 hour cut!

@ghostviggen

6 ай бұрын

More characters and storylines in GoT that needs more hours to tell. It’s amazing how good storytelling the theatrical version of Fellowship is with its runtime. We get enough information about the world and we get enough time with the characters to actually care about them before the plot starts. I don’t feel the need to drag the story out just to give us more film.

I think that the idea of streaming it as a series is the ideal platform, im pretty sure i heard peters first edit for fellowship came out to about 9 hours!

It's interesting how many people set aside an entire day, usually in the winter months then watch all of the extended movies back-to-back. I'm one of them. I've been doing it for years.

Making a LotR mini series of all the extra footage is the best idea Iv heard in a long time

I honestly believe because the LOTR trilogy is now apart of classic cinema and from the era before the great streaming dynasty, nothing can beat seeing it in cinemas. Even if they just released it as say a mini-series but in theatres I would be happy, just because the experience of LOTR was unmatched and the hype it gained from seeing it there is worth giving to the younger generations who didnt get to experience that. Obviously there are a lot more logistics behind it, but I think it would be ESSENTIAL for the "super-extended edition" to be released in theatres.

A mini series like that could fix some of the damage of “Rings of Power.” I’d watch it and I know tons of people who would watch it.

@pirojfmifhghek566

8 ай бұрын

I don't think anything can fix the problem that created the "Rings of Power." It's not that the story content was what made the show suck. It's the fact that the people who own the IP and the licensing are greasy, money-grubbing pigs who only understand spreadsheets and statistical data. They refused to hire actual writers for the show. Look at the writing credits. None of them are career writers. They're all low-tier "producers" who wrote a handful of crappy episodes for highschool dramas and Law & Order and used their connections as "producers" to get the job. It's all nepotism born from hollywood's rotting corpse. Just goes to show that Amazon thinks of LOTR and the Silmarillion as an easy cash cow and they have no reverence for it. They're going to milk it until its udders fall off. Considering all this, there is no hope even for a mini series based on that old footage. Who is going to handle that footage? What editor? What director? Will they need to shoot additional footage? The process is going to be picked apart by vultures, I guarantee it. If we ever expect something good to come out of Tolkien's works again, it'll be after the IP falls into the hands of a group that actually gives a crap about the source material. But that's a rich man's game. And I mean _billionaire_ rich.

@docomega7862

8 ай бұрын

​@@pirojfmifhghek566amaeon isn't the owner of lotr. They only bought the rights to make an adaption. Just like the studio who made the gollum game bought the rights to make an adaption. If I'm not mustaken, tolkien's heirs and warner are still the major owner. Plus, warner still has the rights for their own movie trilogy anyways. Since this mini series would only be an extended version of the movies put to series firmat to be more digest, it doesn't require to buy any mire rights thn they already have. Who would run the series? Whoever warner chooses, so prpbably peter jackson or at least he'll be somewhat involved in the process. Amazon will play absolutely no part in this as they do not own the lotr franchise

@g00se99

8 ай бұрын

I made it through one episode. It was terrible. So yes, a 25 anniversary anything would be fantastic. I love these movies so much.

@matthiasneidenberger9471

8 ай бұрын

@@g00se99 Amazon tried to catch lightning in a bottle without putting in the same care and effort of the makers who did it already.

@colinmorgan2511

8 ай бұрын

​@@g00se99 you poor b@stard, I only just made it through the trailer.

I’m betting a lot of the unreleased footage is alternate versions of scenes we got, rather than completely new scenes. Like how Arwin was originally in helms deep, but they changed it. I’d still be super curious to see all that extra footage as like a bonus feature, but I don’t think it would really be that easy to stick it all back into the movie. Not just editing but vfx, sound, music, maybe adr, it would be a huge project

Ur voice is so soothing. Keep making this types of videos ❤

The fact that the negative still exists in a vault and is obviously taken care of by Sir Peter Jackson and co means sooooo much. He definitely knows his craft - I'll expect at least something new (not a gimmick) at the 25year mark

@williamlaubach3285

8 ай бұрын

He says Warner Bros has it. It's standard Hollywood studio practice. He has no hand in caring for the negatives. A nice thought though

Thanks for talking about this! Gil Galad's scenes is what everyone has been craving to see since 2002 and especially since the actor himself has done conventions and signed autographs. You can never have too much Lord Of the rings :) and The Hobbit too in my opinion ;)

Once a year, usually between xmas and new year, my wife and I sit down and watch the entire extended editions in one day. Breakfast > Fellowship > Lunch> Twin Towers> Dinner> RotK. If you've got more footage hiding your damn right we want to see it.

@aldunlop4622

18 күн бұрын

Yep, and if you don't, you're no fan...

THANK YOU! Been looking for a video like this for ages!

Open it to the public domain and let the fan edits commence!

@mythwest

8 ай бұрын

Dang this is an awesome idea honestly

Thanks for watching, and don’t forget to sign the petition in the description!

@matthiasneidenberger9471

8 ай бұрын

There may be a day where the strength of the fan base may fail. But shall not be this day!

@tayzk5929

8 ай бұрын

This day we fight!!

@BlancoDiablo

8 ай бұрын

Same

@pikashock

8 ай бұрын

You can continue with Rings of Power🫠🫣

@matthiasneidenberger9471

8 ай бұрын

Tell me, when did @@pikashock abandon reason for madness?

A few years ago I noticed all the times he teases the 25th anniversary cut and I was one day thinking of compiling those clips… And you’ve done it! haha I sure hope they are working on it considering how soon that will be…

The fact that WB haven't paid to release alternate cuts with this footage re-added here and there and resell them at full price is really just leaving money on the table, people would gobble that up in a heartbeat and want even more. They could be selling the DLC equivalent of movies! lol

Best cut part is the intended 20min prologue that introduced the races and the extended battle of Dagorlad-Mordor

I hope we get to see it, even if it's the raw unedited footage

There's also a deleted scene mentioned in the director's commentary where Aragorn dons his kingly armor before the battle at the Black Gate, and has a conversation with the council of Gondor. BRING IT TO ME

When they re-released the trilogy here in Denmark last year, the last episode alone lasted 4 1/2 hours. I enjoyed every minute….

I have been yearning for the Gil-Galad duel part of the intro to be released fully in some form, even just as a deleted scene.

I'd be willing to sit down and watch three five hour movies with a huge grin on my face for all of the fifteen hours!

Love the idea of the extended mini-series. I'd watch it!

Love it! I've been checking every now and then to see if anythings been happening on this since PJ first mentioned it. I keep hoping it'll happen. Wouldn't the fact that Amazon are still making their LOTR series hold things up till it's over? 25th isn't far away, let's hope he's been working on it secretly

The 6 Tolkien movies from Peter Jackson and crew, and the games etc that came from them, are the only ones I really care about. I was saddened that there was only one commentary track for the Hobbit movies when the Lotr movies set a precedent of 4 commentary tracks per movie. I want all the stuff they've filmed, and more added to it if they can

Mini series that's around 15 hours long would be perfect.

good shit man i think they should be lookin into doing some version of your idea. you have my sub 👍

Robert Meyer Burnett was the cast interviewer during filming and he did a 5-hour interview with Christopher Lee

@mythwest

4 ай бұрын

Dang, where can I find this interview??

Finished reading the book a few days ago, definitely want the cut released! Pity that the Fellowship and Two Towers DVDs got sold out before I read the trilogy

@jameswebber359

8 ай бұрын

What do you mean sold out? They are still easily purchased in most formats.

@galaxydeathskrill5607

8 ай бұрын

​@@jameswebber359Sorry about that, what I meant to say is that I used to have the Special Extended DVD's (my dad owned a video rental shop, which when he closed got most of the content inside it) of FoTR, TT and RoTK. While I read, I remembered I had those DVDs and asked if they were still here, and got answered that 2 of them were sold, and RoTK being the only one left.

The mini series format is how I was thinking the only manner which The Silmarillion could be presented. But, The Silmarillion is just too good. SOME of that epic universe benefits from exclusively read/print/internal imagination. IMHO.

I would love this, gonna post this everywhere!

@mythwest

8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I hope they come with an extended on extended version before I die.

A mini series of the cut scenes would be freakin amazing even the LOTR trilogy bloopers is far more quality content than anything in the rings of power lmao

@colinmorgan2511

8 ай бұрын

I'd be up for a series around the Last Alliance. With actual Gil-Galad, not what ever the hell Rangs of Powa was.

I yearn for any small tidbit of footage that I can see!! I'm always scouring the interwebs for some scene or minute detail I may have missed. Bring it on in any shape, form or context. I could never get enough. Ever. !! It all makes me so very happy In a very dark world at times. And thank every single soul that made these movies happen. ❤ seriously Bless you all!! Love from a TN girl 💓

I just finished the Extended Trilogy with my family over 6 sittings and our one complaint was that there should have been more!

Personally feel the best way the best way to release this footage is as a big, beefed up deleted scene disc with the mythical 25th anniversary edition. Hoping Peter Jackson gets to make one! We’ve already got two versions of the film in existence, I’m not sure of the need for an extended ultimate edition as well, particularly when we consider the point mentioned in the video that it may give us more footage at the expense of the quality of the film. Plus no matter what is added, certain scenes (the big one being Arwen at Helm’s Deep) have been dropped from the plot, so they could not be included. Even if I think Jackson made the right creative decision there, I’m still interested in seeing it, so would need another outlet for all the bits that would never be added.

I swear to God if they do not release it within my lifetime I WILL come back to haunt all of their asses, mark my words.

You captured the essence of the LOTR trilogy pretty perfect in your opening

Five or six hours per movie. That's less than half of what I was expecting.

So what you're telling me is there is a vast treasure horde underground and a giant corporate monster. Guarding it and you're looking for about 13 adventurers to go retrieve it? Hmmm.... Count me in!

@Phodis

8 ай бұрын

You have my sword

@Transilvanian90

8 ай бұрын

It's literally Erebor and Smaug IRL.

@ozarkscarguy540

8 ай бұрын

And 1 burglar

This would be fucking awesome. I’d love to see the films more accurately aligned to the pace of the books. I love the films, but one thing that has always felt strange watching them is the pacing. After reading the books, I feel like the films pacing is just so fast… even at an already long film. I’d be so down for a mini series or even a long ass film.

The proof of these extra scenes exisiting were also evident by the tie-in games, which used many actual shots that people never saw. I remmeber when I played Return of the King, I was very confused by frames and shots that i never saw, but later on saw in Extended Editions or something that neither eidtions saw, like early design of the Witch-King's helmet, which was VERY different in the game compared to the movie design. Which only means that game developers had access to stuff that no fan ever saw on screen.

you said it, bring it on, another 10 hours of unseen footage or more, i'm in, never too much

We must rally together and march down to the production center and sign a petition demanding to release all the hidden footage to the big screen so we can watch it at its mega form.

@aldunlop4622

18 күн бұрын

"Bring me this treasure from under the Mountain, Warners!"

Our favorite dwarf summed it all. Can't wait for the petition to fail, can't wait even more to be wrong

I didn't know about that, but now I need this! Please, P.J., release the LOTR 25th cut!

I can’t wait for the 20th anniversary 10hr cut of each film

Really need to see the scenes of Eowyn fighting in the caves behind Helms Deep!

One of the best parts of the entire trilogy was the appendix.

I'd love another extended version!! Bring it on...

mini-series idea is fantastic

are you kidding me there was a scene of arwen and aragorn when they first met? 💔💔💔 I NEED IT