[MartinSE]

I just finished watching the extended version of the Lord of The Rings. Eleven hours in three movies and it left me wanting more.

Peter Jackson's Master Class in converting a novel into a movie. It will be a long time before anyone sees work like that again. In my opinion a true Master.

I don't know if anyone else noticed, but the eleven hours was in addition to the credits which scrolled the cast and crew names 6 per line for 25 minutes for each movie. Almost a hour and a half of credits. It was indeed a monumental undertaking.

The is a lot of controversy about the movies and how they portrayed the Novels, but I don't think it is possible to make a movie that perfectly matches a novel - they are two different media. But, I think Jackson's representation of the novels are as perfect as one can get. I can't think of another movie that comes close to doing its book justice.

What do you think?