Are there several different versions of the movie? I see highlights of scenes I did not see in the actual movie. Plus, there seems to be edits in he movie that seem out of context.
They cut out about a 1/4 of the book and still needed 3 hours (bluray version). I thought the movie was interesting, but Frodo is 50 at the time, he they had a young actor play Frodo.
There were theatrical releases of each movie and then on DVD and Blu-ray there were extended editions that added in a few extra scenes. I didn’t much care for the extended editions, but some of the Tolkien nerds out there loved them.