“One Blu-ray to rule them all, one Blu-ray to find them. One Blu-ray to bring them all and in the darkness find them.”
Don’t know if you noticed, but we cleverly changed the words of J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous verse to celebrate the fact that today, at long, long (long long long) last, it was announced that Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is coming to Blu-ray.
Get out your calendars, flip to April, and then put a big old red circle around April 6, for that’s when the trilogy is set to debut in a beautiful nine-disc, three-film package that will retail, in the States, for around a hundred bucks. And no, we have no idea what that is in real money.
No word yet on what extras will be on the discs, or indeed if the pic and sound will have been revamped especially for the Blu-format, but the trilogy - which is, of course, The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers and The Return Of The King - will apparently contain the theatrical versions, with the Extended Editions to follow at a later date.
Regardless, though, we’re chomping at the bit to take a trip to Mordor once more – this time in eye-exploding 1080p. Bring it on.