Lord of the Rings, The: Book I - The Return of the Shadow

Review by Mr.Lovebucket — December 20, 2011 @ 8:40 pm

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I enjoyed watching the whole series so much, I cannot really tell.
You managed to follow the storyline from book as far as possible. Two thumbs up for that!

Also gave it me the incitement to read the book once again. Thanks a lot.

The Treebeard/Merry/Pippin-sequence comes a little hasty, but how to use any other material that doesn’t exist? For me, I don’t care.

The Book-Edition stands beside the PJ-Version on the shelf (I made a cover-workaround from kerr’s orginal DVD-Cover and 6 DVDs on the basis of AvPs red disc, it’s uploaded already, but not activated, yet).

Thanks again (that was “thank” #5)
-Mr.Lovebucket

I can only give this fanedit a perfect review since I just truly loove this version of LOTR so much more than the original cut / edit (both theatrical and EE). To me all of Kerr's 6 books are a masterpeace. Only thing distracting is that, as far as I know, there is no HD-version of it available, so when watching the Hobbit fanedit beforehand, the quality difference is noticable. Let's hope an HD version comes out someday. This will be the version I will watch from now on if I watch the LOTR. Thank you Kerr for the work you put in!

Couldn't find it in a higher quality but, other than that, this series is a perfect example of an edit as the original product should have been.

Superior.

Not much to add at this point. The edit is technically flawless. I could not detect video or audio editing anywhere and just enjoyed watching.

This does just what is advertised, gives you a version faithful to the book. All the extras added by Peter Jackson are pretty much gone, and it's just the story as you read. Not that I dislike all the extra stuff, but it is nice to have this "purist" version to watch. I also like that the movies have been broken up into more bite-size pieces so it doesn't feel quite as much of a marathon viewing commitment.

My only minor wish is that of other reviewers: 5.1 audio, and HD video.