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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Except that all three films had largely been written and filmed by the time that FotR was released. You could have a point on the editing, though, I suppose.

Not that I'd ever defend PJ (though I'm eternally thankful that he did what he did), but was the editing of FOTR more carefully done, as afterwards he then had to cut the FOTR EE version (and start a trend/revenue cash cow there) along with editing/enhancing TTT? Was this the reason that ROTK was somewhat better as his workload decreased somewhat as most of the machinery was already in place?