THE LORD OF THE RINGS-
FEATURES
- US authentic release, region FREE, brand new in original seal, exactly as pictured
- DVD details:
- Starring:
- Director:
- Encoding: Region FREE
- Format: Director's Cut, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Box set, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Color
- Aspect Ratio(s): 2.35:1
- Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 5.1 EX, DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
- Studio: New Line Home Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: November 18, 2003
Including:
-The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition Collector's Gift Set
DVD Features:
- Available Subtitles: English
- Available Audio Tracks: English (DTS 6.1 ES), English (Dolby Digital 5.1 EX), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
- (c) 2002 New Line Home Entertainment, Inc. (c) 2001 New Line Productions, Inc. TM The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Tolkien Enterprises under license to New Line Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- Four-disc Platinum Series Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord of Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- New version of National Geographic Beyond the Movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring DVD, with additional featurettes
- Exclusive Argonath bookends sculpted by the film's visual effects artists
- Exclusive Decipher trading cards
- Special edition of the Lord of the Rings Fan Club official movie magazine
- Packaging illustrated by famed artist Alan Lee
- Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord of Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Discs 1-2: The Feature:
- Unique version of the epic adventure with over 30 minutes of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film and new music scored by Academy Award?-winning composer Howard Shore (approx. 208 minutes)
- Commentary by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens
- Commentary by the design team, including production designer Grant Major, costume designer Ngila Dickson, Weta Workshop creative supervisor Richard Taylor, and conceptual designer Alan Lee
- Commentary by the production/post-production team, including producer Barrie Osborne, executive producer Mark Ordesky, director of photography Andrew Lesnie, editor John Gilbert, and composer Howard Shore
- Commentary by Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, and Sean Bean
- Easter egg: theatrical preview of The Two Towers
- Special Extended DVD Edition of The Lord of Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Discs 3-4: The Appendices:
- Two discs with 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 Fellowship of the Ring
- DISC 3: "From Book to Vision":
- Adapting the book into a screenplay & planning the film
- Designing and building Middle-earth
- Storyboards to pre-visualization
- Weta Workshop visit: An up-close look at the weapons, armor, creatures, and miniatures from the film
- An interactive map of Middle-earth tracing the journey of the Fellowship
- An interactive map of New Zealand highlighting the location scouting process
- Galleries of art and slideshows with commentaries by the artists
