My copy of the extended edition of The Return of the King was waiting at home when I got in last night. It was a day early thanks to the vagaries of the British postal system. Now I just need to find about ten and a half hours to sit and watch all three films together.
I’ve one niggling little disappointment with the packaging of these films. Ever since I first read the books almost thirty years ago there has been a colour scheme for the three volumes[1]. The Fellowship of the Ring is green, The Two Towers is blue and The Return of the King is brown.
But these DVD sets change that. They use the same colours, but in a different order. The Fellowship of the Ring is green (so far, so good), but The Two Towers is brown and The Return of the King is Blue.
Like I say, it’s a very small thing. But someone, somewhere made the decision to change the colours associated with the last two films. I’d like to know why.
[1] Actually I think the scheme goes back to when the individual volumes were first published.