{"id":219472,"date":"2025-12-07T02:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219472\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T02:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:25:09","slug":"the-extended-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-comes-back-to-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219472\/","title":{"rendered":"The Extended ‘Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy Comes Back to Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2026, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring <\/a>turns a whopping 25 years old. And to celebrate the milestone, it and its two sequels are getting their extended editions back on the big screen.<\/p>\n

Fathom Events and Warner Bros. are teaming to put the blockbuster trilogy in theaters next month for two weekends, with each installment getting DBOX showings on the first weekend. All three will get two days to themselves: Fellowship\u00a0on Fridays January 16 and 23, The Two Towers\u00a0on Saturdays January 17 and 24, and finally Return of the King\u00a0on Sundays January 18 and 25. And for those who watch these at AMC theaters, there\u2019ll be a limited-edition collectible Map Tin and a Quest Magnet Set, while Regal and indie theater attendees get their own merch to take home.<\/p>\n

Each extended installment of the\u00a0Rings\u00a0trilogy will be a long one\u2014Fellowship and Towers are just shy of three hours, and\u00a0King\u00a0is three hours and 21 minutes\u2014but for those who\u2019ve watched these at home over the years, they\u2019re used to it. Whether you grew up with the films or came in late, it should be fun to revisit three of the biggest blockbusters of modern Hollywood\u2026then remember Warner Bros. and possibly Netflix<\/a> will undermine them (again<\/a>) with a Gollum movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Go on ahead and buy your\u00a0Lord of the Rings\u00a0tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2026, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring turns a whopping 25 years old. And…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,95232,327,55595,7199],"class_list":{"0":"post-219472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-lord-of-the-rings","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-peter-jackson","15":"tag-the-lord-of-the-rings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115675917392590340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}