The Lord of the Rings Trilogy [Blu-ray]

I must admit that I am not well-versed on the technical aspects of putting a film on Blu-Ray in high definition, but I wouldn't imagine that it requires any more input from the director and the staff/cast that originally made the film than the few hours required to record the (usually useless) special features. I would not think that production of "The Hobbit" would have a whole lot of legitimate impact on the process.

Well, I take that last comment back. I would think that they would want to release LoTR on Blu-Ray as part of the hype preceding the release of "The Hobbit," to spark greater interest (if any such thing would be necessary) in the theatrical release.

I would like to echo the comments of those who urge that the BD version be the extended version of the film, where at least we get one of my favorite passages, the Voice of Saruman. Indeed, my greatest criticism of Jackson's otherwise magnificent version is that it was made in three installments rather than six (LoTR is SIX, not three, books, in three volumes). Had he made it into six movies, not only would he have doubled his profits, he could have remained truer to J.R.R. Tolkein's vision even while indulging his own exaggerated lust for battle scenes. Maybe he wouldn't have so badly botched Theoden's and Faramir's characters, he could have gotten the Shelob part right, and we might even have met Bombadil, the Barrow Wights, and the Pukel Men, and seen the Shire get scoured. We might even have been allowed to see the wonderful love story between Faramir and Eowyn in "The Houses of Healing." He passed on a whole heap o' good stuff!

Hey, if he wants to do battle scenes up the wazoo, he could produce the Fall of Gondolin.

The most anticipated BR trilogy yet. There will probably be more demand for this box set than even the Star Wars Anthology. Catching it on TV in 1080i is quite a treat. Cannot wait for 1080p with no commercials, HD audio and (presumably) the extended cuts.

This is without a doubt the greatest fantasy film ever made and for it to come out on blue ray would just be exquisite. If any film deserved to be on blue ray, this most certainly does and hopefully with all the extras commentaries, photos, making of, they should throw everything in it including the kitchen sink. Please dont make us wait until the Hobbit comes out in theathers, don't do that we want and need it now! Any true fan of the Lord of the Rings will go out and buy it immediately, i mysefl have only just finished the complete commentaries on disk one and am half way through disk 2 and it is so fascinating what is being said, everyone's input is soo valuable, these guys are just so smart, well done, this is the way movies are to be made! and commentaries! J.R.R. Tolkien would have been pleased, the books are and still will be the definitive version but Andrew Jackson's masterpiece will endure and as for fantasy films it is king. Runners up would be the Sinbad movies (Ray-Harry's clay monsters awesome) Clash of the titans, Dragon slayer, the argonauts and Herc's (with Christopher Reeves) movies. I would love someone to take the same approach and passion toward the Elric of Melnibone, saga of the white wolf, by Michael Moorcock, next to Lord of the rings this is one of fantasy's greatest saga's, the saga of the black sword Stormbringer. Also of notable mention, the Dragonlance Chronicles by Tracy Hickman and Margarett Weiss, these two films deserve the royal treatment and should only be directed, written by people who like Andrew Jackson had a passion for such films, or like Sam Raimi had for Spiderman. Then we would all be in for an immense treat for the Moorcock film, the character Elric is a majestic, complex character who is just so interesting and who would be fantastic to see on screen, he's an albino completely white and strange looking yet interesting and the world is a visual majesty of strange and wonderous things, there's a part where he's riding on the leathery back of a dragon! As for Dragon lance the characters, the story all have major cinema production on it and effects by lucas film or even Weta workshop, i mean they filmed Eragon which cannot compare to DragonLance and certainly not Elric so why not film the classics, the books that deserve to be brought to the big screen and become history. A final movie would be the Conan movie, well done, scripted and with Arnold back this time as King Conan.

I saw this broadcast by FiOS in 1080i on a poor quality Olevia 37" 720P LCD. (Don't buy Olevia - junk, junk, junk - antagonistic service.) BUT LORD OF THE RINGS was still GREAT! The video was greatly improved over DVD upconvert.

I hope the sound will keep up. Hopefully the HD sound will be just as impressive.

I expect the time needed is to make it full featured and compatible for the Blu-ray profile 1.3 or even profile 2 if it's not out by 2010. Imagine what the interactive part could be. Blog this thing up!!!

This is my all time favorite movie. I can't wait for it to come out on blu. I hope its the extended version. Also can't wait for the Hobbit to come to the big screen I hear its in the works.