When The Extended Edition Of Return Of The King Comes Out....

I really hope it ties up some loose ends for me.

Namely, I hope they give a better sense of time in the movie. There were various points in the movie (I've watched it twice in the past two days) where I couldn't tell if it was night or day out. In one scene it would be dark as hell (like at the river at Osgilliath) and then in the next scene it was bright and sunny.

Also in the book, Frodo and Sam take about two or three days to get through Mordor to Mt. Doom, but it seems to take them just a few hours in the movie.

When the extended version comes out I hope there are more scenes in Mordor and more of an explanation of how long the war at Pennenor Fields actually was.

Just my two cents, it was the only fault I could find with the movie after multiple viewings.

They cut some of the Mordor stuff out. Like when Sam and Frodo get caught up with an Orc brigade.

Peter Jackson had to make a LOT of difficult calls. The fact is that the Two Towers and Return of the King would make a TERRIBLE movies as written. They had to make LOTS of changes.

Fellowship of the Ring will stand as the most fluid and accurate volume.

conveying the passage of time.

In the books several years pass between when Bilbo leaves Bag End for Rivendell and when Frodo leaves.

The whole journey takes at least a year and the film trilogy makes it feel like weeks or months at best.

That it was 13 months to the day since they left when they returned home.

Oh and I find it completely baffling that the Hobbits return to the Shire wearing those bring, shiney Gondor uniforms and nobody even so much as bats an eye at them.

Of course, it probably doesn't matter much since the whole Sauramon and the Shire part was left out.

:(

...for you. In my opinion, the reason it is dark at Osgiliath and then light a short time later is--

NERDS!!! NEEEEERRRRRRRDS!! NEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDS!!!!

I hope that helped.