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Dan Mathewson...the extra footage was quite a treat. I had 17 friends over the night the extended DVD version was released. We all loved it. Really whet our whistles for The Two Towers. I really have to take my hat off to Jackson for how he has portrayed one of my favorite novels... The Tolkien family has to be really pleased. (And, probably like everyone associated with that movie, very rich...and getting richer.)
Funny, I never thought that the book/trilogy was dry at all. It was intriguing to me, even during repeat reads. I thought Tolkien was a terrific writer. I understand that more printings of the Lord of the Rings have been sold than any other epic novel in our history... (The Silmarillion? Now...that was a tough, dry read written by Tolkien that I never made past Chapter 4...)