Extra Features:

• Discs 1-2: Special Extended Edition of the Film:
• Four Audio Commentaries by Director and Writers, the Design Team, the Production Team and the Cast (Featuring more than 30 participants including Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen and Academy Award® winners Richard Taylor, Andrew Lesnie, Howard Shore, Jim Rygiel, Randy Cook, and cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monahagan, Orland Bloom, Christopher Lee and Sean Bean).
• Appendices Part One
• From Book To Vision:
• Six documentaries covering JR.R. Tolkien, the process of adapting a book into a screenplay and planning the film, designing and building Middle-earth, as well as a visit to Weta Workshop with an up close look at the costumes, weapons, armor, creatures and miniatures created for the film.
• An interactive map of Middle-earth tracing the journey of the Fellowship
• Galleries of art and accompanying slide shows with commentaries by the artists (includes an archive of nearly 2000 images)
• Storyboards and previsualization sequences with film comparisons
• Disc 4: From Vision To Reality:
• 11 Original documentaries covering the cast, principal photography a day in the life of a hobbit, visual effects, post production, editing, music and sound and the release of the film
• Galleries of Behind-the-Scenes Photographs