Extra Features:

• DISCS 1-2: The Feature:
  
• A new version of the second installment includes 43 minutes of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film. (approx. 223 minutes)
  
• Commentary track by writer-director Peter Jackson and writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens
  
• Commentary track by the design team
  
• Commentary track by the production/post-production team
  
• Commentary track by 16 cast members, including Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, John Rhys-Davies, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Bernard Hill, and Miranda Otto
  
• DISCS 3-4: The Appendices:
  
• Two discs with hours of original content including multiple documentaries and design/photo galleries with thousands of images to give viewers an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  
• DISC 3:
  
• Adapting the book into a screenplay & planning the film
  
• Designing and inspiration for locations in Middle-earth
  
• Storyboards to pre-visualization
  
• Weta Workshop visit: See sculptors in action as they create weapons, armor, creatures, and miniatures from the film
  
• Atlas of Middle-earth tracing the journey of the Fellowship
  
• An interactive map of New Zealand highlighting the location scouting process
  
• Galleries of art and slideshows with commentaries by the artists
  
• DISC 4:
  
• Sending the actors into battle: sword fighting
  
• Principal photography: Stories from the set
  
• Digital effects including motion capture and the computer program to create the armies of Orcs
  
• Bigatures: a close-up look at the miniatures
  
• Galleries of behind-the-scenes photographs and personal cast photos
  
• Post-Production: editing it all together
  
• Sound design demonstration
  
• DVD-ROM Content: Includes access to exclusive online features