Those may be the best three words I’ve heard all year. That’s how much “additional footage”:http://www.lordoftherings.net/homevideo/homevideo.html the extended version will have (via “Slashdot”:http://slashdog.org). It fills me with hope, beccause 50 minutes sounds like enough to give it “what it needed”:http://www.polytropos.org/archives/000222.html — enough to make an even bigger improvement than “its predecessor”:http://www.polytropos.org/archives/000168.html enjoyed.

Pre-orders start on October 1. Release date isn’t until November, which right now seems a long, long way away …