Six Hundred and Eight Minutes...
That is how much time it took to watch all 3 Lord of the Ring movies (the Return of the King was the special extended version :-)). Actually - that is the total feature runtime - it actually took a lot longer if you factor in the pauses for bathroom breaks (and water breaks, and meal breaks, and sleep breaks since I didn't actually watch all 3 in one sitting; I was smart enough to spread the viewing over 2 days ;-)).
608 minutes. That's 10.13 hours. 10.13 hours. The extended DVD edition of the Return of the King was 251 minutes alone (50 minutes longer than the regular version).
I hadn't seen any of the movies before this weekend - for some reason or other always missing the team morale event where these were shown, or the "LOTR" house parties, etc. I've been really wanting to see them - I've always loved the books, and these movies are right up my alley. So I decided this weekend would be the one.
Great movies, all of them. Beautiful. Glad I watched them. But have to say am equally glad to have them behind me now so I can move on with the rest of my life ;-)