Customer Ratings & Reviews

I got for a super price and this set worth your money

I really love that this set has the extended edition!

It's nice to have blue-ray LOTR extended collection.

only complaint is movies are divided into two disks

Awesome movie to add to a blu ray library.........

If you like Lord of the Rings, this is a must own.

Awesome group of films. Worth the price every penny.

I was mildly irked they had multiple blu ray discs per movie but more so that all the DVD trays were partially broken (no disc scratches tho)

No Review as of yet, bought it for a fiend go Christmas.

I bought this as an anniversary gift for my husband, and when he finally got the chance to watch them, he opened it and it was broken so the disks couldn't stay in place. The DVDs were fine, but they moved around everywhere due to the fact that it was broken inside. Be wary when you open it and make sure.

This was not what I expected at all. On the web site there were pictures of DVDs enclosed in very nice packaging with a sturdy case and a fold over cover that opened to reveal a map of middle earth. The product I received had just a thin slip cover around the DVDs. I tried to call my local store to see if they had the version I wanted but after 20 minutes on hold I never did get to talk to anyone. Alas, have to return and will try Amazon.

Half the disks are in terrible shape and glitch like crazy, you can barely watch it. Holes in the packaging, plastic bits brake off if you look at them wrong (probably what scratched the disks up). Who thought cutting corners to use cheap materials would make for a shoddy product???

This is the second one i purchased, I had to return it. I thought it was a glitch with the set. Within the first twenty minutes of the first movie the sound and picture became distorted. I am highly disappointed.

Returned it because I was accused of being a thief and they locked up everything I paid cash for in their lock up along with all the products that I already owned that I was trying to unpaired for Nike watches that I had bought for Christmas

Will have to have most of the discs resurfaced to remove the marks

I ordered the Lord of the rings Blu Ray set I received a keyboard instead.

After the huge debacle over the first blu ray release of the Lord of The Rings theatrical versions, here it is... the Extended Editions of the best movies ever made (in my opinion). Let me star off by addressing the one thing that some people have a hard time getting through their heads... I know that Blu Ray discs have a much higer storage capacity than DVD's, I know this set is on 15 discs and I also know you must get off your couch and change the disc ONE TIME during a four hour movie. My question is, what's the big deal? Come on people, you are getting superior video/audio quality, you are getting probably the best set of special features/commentaries/making of/behind the scenes content on any movie of all time and your getting it at a very reasonable price! I personally am very happy they have put these on 2 discs, it just means the video/audio quality is going to be outstanding and isn't that more important? Is it really that big of a deal that there are a lot of discs? I mean really, can you logically explain why that is such a horrible dilemma? Also, if you can't manage to get up one time and take 3 minutes to swap a disc then flop back down on your couch then something is wrong. Just enjoy the movies guy's... this is probably the last version of these films they will release and the best version and the only version needed. Long live Lord of The Rings!

As someone that bought the DVD extended versions, I am glad the Blu-ray versions are finally here. I can't believe how picky people can be and actually complain that there is "too much" in this package of disks. I mean I can understand if you think you're not getting enough for your money, but getting too much? I guess it's maybe for those that would like just the movies and do not care for the extras, but with it on sale for $70, that is less than $5 a disk. I am one of those that love the extras. Plus if you bought just the extended movies they would probably cost at least $20 each, so that would be $60 for all three films anyway. This one collectors box has all fifteen disks (six movie disks and nine extras disks) and it is the size of the box for just one movie of the DVD extended versions (so now one box will replace three). You have five disks in each case (which is about the size of a standard BD case). Two disks are the movies and three disks are extras. And finally you get download codes for the digital versions of all three extended movies. The codes are good for a year, which is better than most who usually give you only three or four months before the digital code is invalid.

Finally, the extended version comes to Blu-Ray with HD audio. Not only that, but the packaging is leaps and bounds above the DVD version and takes up just about as much space as ONE of those boxes. It also includes a digital copy (standard def) so you can take the movies on the go. Many of the extras are the same as those found on the extended DVDs, each movie has one additional disc of content. Frankly since this basically cost nothing for them to throw into the box I am glad to have another copy in much more compact packaging. Yes, the disc split is back, but these editions are known to use the lowest possible compression and they are also using lossless audio, so the audio and video quality is amazing. The disc split never bothered me before (usally a good time to take a short break anyway) and I'll take it if it means the movie quality is better.

Bill Hunt from digitalbits.com said it best 'It's my opinion that The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, in this long form, is an achievement unmatched in the history of cinema.' Now the Extended Editions have come to Blu-Ray and can now be viewed in stunning 1080p video and 6.1 DTS-HD MA audio. Much has been said about the improvements made to the first film. I believe the color timing is an improvement. It appears that it now matches the look of the other three movies. You really notice in the Bridge of Khazad-dum scene. In the DVD release of the Extended Editions it looked different from the first movie and the beginning of the second movie. That has been remedied with this release. Also there has been some complaints about the number of discs offered in this release. Specifically that with the memory size of a Blu-Ray disc these films should fit on one disc. I believe that the fact that they are still split over 2 discs is only a plus. This allows the best video and audio to be shown. The down-side is that there are no 5-disc Blu-Ray players. There are only 400-disc varieties that are very pricey. The DVD extras were unfortunately not filmed in HD and therefore are again released on DVD with this Blu-Ray release. This release gives you all the supplemental materials from the previous 2 DVD releases. With that being said, this is the most complete release of these movies and I feel confident that I won't have to buy another release later down the road. This is the best you are going to get with the Lord of the Rings. Buy it now!