The Lord of the Rings Trilogy’s 4K Blu-ray assortment is on sale for less than $55 at Amazon and Walmart, which matches the field set’s worth throughout Black Friday final yr. The gathering consists of the theatrical and prolonged cuts of Peter Jackson’s beloved diversifications of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. In case you’ve solely seen the unique theatrical releases, the prolonged cuts alone are well worth the worth of admission, as they add roughly two hours of runtime to the already epic (and prolonged) journey.
You’ll be able to pair The Lord of the Rings Trilogy with Jackson’s trilogy tailored from The Hobbit for $59.
$55 (was $90)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy’s transfer to 4K UHD decision is fittingly marvelous. Center-earth comes alive with the visible and audio enhancements offered by Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR10 and Dolby Atmos 5.1 encompass sound. The one draw back to this assortment is that it not comes a voucher for the digital variations of the films.
The Lord of the Rings: The Movement Image Trilogy does not embrace any typical particular options, however you are still getting two hours of content material not proven in theaters. If you have not watched the prolonged cuts, you are in for a deal with. Every film is considerably longer than its theatrical counterpart, which is spectacular contemplating the trilogy already eclipsed 9 hours in theaters. The Fellowship of the Ring’s prolonged minimize is half-hour longer, The Two Towers is 44 minutes longer, and The Return of the King is 51 minutes longer. Return of the King’s prolonged model is likely one of the uncommon motion pictures that eclipses 4 hours.
Every movie’s prolonged minimize is unfold throughout two discs, whereas the theatrical releases get one disc every. This is the overall runtime of the theatrical and prolonged variations of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy:
The Lord of the Rings Theatrical Cuts
- The Fellowship of the Ring – 178 minutes (2 hours and 58 minutes)
- The Two Towers – 179 minutes (2 hours and 59 minutes)
- The Return of the King – 200 minutes (3 hours and 20 minutes)
Complete runtime: 9 hours and 18 minutes
The Lord of the Rings Prolonged Cuts
- The Fellowship of the Ring – 208 minutes (3 hours and 28 minutes)
- The Two Towers – 223 minutes (3 hours and 43 minutes)
- The Return of the King – 251 minutes (4 hours and 11 minutes)
Complete runtime: 11 hours and 22 minutes
The Hobbit Trilogy’s 4K Blu-ray field set is accessible for $59 at Amazon
$35 | Launched January 7
Massive followers of The Lord of the Rings might wish to add the lately launched Walmart-exclusive model of The Fellowship of the Ring to their shelves–as lengthy as you do not already personal it. The case proven above is identical one from The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Steelbook Assortment; Walmart is solely promoting the primary movie by itself. Hopefully The Two Towers and The Return of the King shall be launched subsequent, however it’s unclear if Walmart may have all three.
However, The Fellowship of the Ring’s Restricted Version Steelbook is a beautiful show piece by itself. It comes with the identical 4K Blu-ray remaster and particular options because the movie does within the $55 assortment, however you additionally get a voucher for the digital version.
The Fellowship of the Ring’s 4K Restricted Version Steelbook has already bought out no less than as soon as since preorders opened, however it’s in inventory for $35 and obtainable to ship now.
If you do not have a 4K media participant, there are quite a few normal Blu-ray collections of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Most notably, you may get the remastered Lord of the Rings Trilogy Blu-ray field set for less than $18.19 (was $25) at Amazon. Remastered in 2021 for Fellowship of the Ring’s twentieth anniversary, these are larger high quality than earlier Blu-ray releases. This specific set options the theatrical cuts, however there’s a model of the remaster with the prolonged cuts for $40 (it isn’t on sale).
The 4K UHD editions are actually better–and you get each cuts–but the remastered 1080p releases nonetheless look nice.
The Hobbit Trilogy Theatrical Assortment, in the meantime, is accessible for less than $16.36 at Amazon. Alternatively, you may get The Hobbit Trilogy Prolonged Assortment for $30 (was $40) at Walmart.
Tolkien’s beloved fantasy world returned to the large display screen in December with The Lord of the Rings: The Battle of the Rohirrim, the primary anime set in Center-earth. The Battle of the Rohirrim releases on 4K Blu-ray and normal Blu-ray on February 18. Three completely different editions are up for preorder proper now, together with a 4K Restricted Version Steelbook. This is a fast have a look at every version at Amazon and Walmart.
Preorder The Lord of the Rings: The Battle of the Rohirrim at Walmart:
Preorder The Lord of the Rings: The Battle of the Rohirrim at Amazon:
The Battle of the Rohirrim was tailored from the appendices of The Lord of the Rings. If you wish to learn Tolkien’s novel earlier than watching The Battle of the Rohirrim (or Peter Jackson’s trilogy), Amazon has nice offers on the lately launched hardcover Collector’s Editions:
The Lord of the Rings 2024 Hardcover Collector’s Editions
