Here's your chance to own the special 4-disc Platinum Series extended DVD of the extended version of Peter Jackson's stunning, Academy Award-winning The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King! Buy the extended DVD alone, or with one of our most popular gifts from The Lord of the Rings for additional savings -- an extra $10 off when you buy Arwen's pendant, $5 off with the Lord of the Rings Monopoly, and $3 off with the bookmark set!

This wide-screen four-disc Platinum Series DVD set includes 50 minutes of never-before-seen footage woven into the theatrical release of the film, and new music by Howard Shore. The movie is presented on two DVDs in anamorphic 16X9 widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) and three Surround Sound options: Dolby Digital EX 5.1, DTS ES 6.1 and Stereo Surround, along with English and Spanish subtitles, interactive animated menus and closed captions.

Discs 1 and 2 titled, "The Feature", include the film itself along with four audio commentaries from Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom and Academy Award winners Richard Taylor, Howard Shore, Randy Cook, and many more.

The remaining discs are titled, "The Appendices." These two discs contain hours of original content including multiple documentaries and design/photo galleries with thousands of images to give viewers an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Documentaries that were started with the Special Extended DVD Editions of the first two films in the trilogy are continued here, bringing the full The Lord of the Rings experience to completion.

Disc 3 includes features on adapting the final chapters into a screenplay, planning the film, abandoned concepts such as the battle between Aragorn and Sauron, storyboards to pre-visualization, a Weta Workshop visit, an Atlas of Middle-earth, galleries of art and slideshows with commentaries by the artists, and much more!

Disc 4 consists of an interactive feature on "The Mumakil Battle," a documentary on completing the trilogy, "Bigatures"-A close-up look at the detailed miniatures used in the film, galleries of behind-the-scenes photographs and personal cast photos, post-production, sound design demonstration, special documentaries on Cameron Duncan, the inspiration for the Academy Award winning song "Into the West," and much more!

This PG-13 minute film runs 250 Minutes.

This item can not be shipped outside the U.S.A.

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