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The extended versions of the Lord of the Rings movies are really long but have some good additional scenes. In the Two Towers, Frodo and Sam hide from a marching army of foreigners with huge elephants on their way to Mordor. Faramir’s Gondor ranger unit ambushes an elephant crew and kill a rider who falls near Frodo and Sam, which is how they get discovered by Faramir’s rangers. That all is shown in the theatrical version, but the extended version has this additional monologue by Faramir about the dead foreign soldier:
I’ve never watched it. My daughter has told me for years, I should. She says I’d like it. I’m a minor syfy nut as long as it’s too far out and absolutely no aliens.
Worth watching but you might want to try the shorter theatrical versions the first time
I watch the whole (extended) trilogy every Christmas (they were released at Christmas time).