Yep, pre-ordered off Amazon. Arrived last Friday, so watched it over the weekend. Utterly brilliant. I really wish they'd released the extended versions at cinemas, instead of the emasculated versions they came up with. The extended versions fill in so much more of the characterisation and plot which was sadly missing in the cinema versions.

Ah well. Just hope our local cinema does a back-to-back screening of all 3 extended editions. They did it for TTT, so I'm just hoping they'll do it for the whole thing. Unfortunately all the DVD compression artifacts are going to be visible on a cinema-size screen, but I guess I can put up with that.

Shambles, the boxed DVD set doesn't have any extra footage in it apart from what's already in the extended versions. It's just all three extended versions in one box. I guess it might have some extra "making-of" stuff, but I doubt it.

Clinton, there's Argonath bookends on Ebay. A bit pricey though.

On the subject of extras, has anyone seen that bit on the RotK extras about Cameron Duncan? That kid showed some serious talent - such a waste for someone like that to go so young. And another tearjerker was the bit about the horses (another reason to love Viggo Mortensen).

Graham.