I'm just replyin' to the 'are you gonna go?!' bits. Don't mind me...
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I didn't watch the LOTR series in the movies, as I missed the first one, so I wound up with the Extended Director Cut 4 disc books, of which two discs were the movie. After I got the first one as a present, I intentionally did NOT go see the other two. When I had them all Gathered, I watched the 15 hours of LOTR and I tell you, it is the only way to watch them, ya ask me. They were glorious, and I had an uninterrupted 'view' of the whole thing.
I also somehow didn't get any spoilers for them, and I'm not gonna now, I hope. I had read The Hobbit, Fellowship, and halfway through the Two Towers. Never read the Return of the King. So I was completely unaware how it would go.
I therefore will abstain from these two in the theatres (and I am completely disinterested in 3D movies) and await both Hobbit EDC4D books, and watch what I'm sure is another 10 hours of win.
/Y'all have fun with watchin' them. La la la, can't hear you *fingers in ears...*