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Ioreth
Ossiriand
Nov 15, 5:59pm
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Swedish Filmstaden is doing extended LOTR marathons???
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But does anyone here know if that only applies to Stockholm or other cinemas too?
I know that several cinemas in Gothenburg - on the other coast - will do and have done some marathons this month.
I stumbled over this piece of news yesterday!
https://www.filmstaden.se/film/sagan-om-ringen-extended-maraton-klassiker/
I need more infomation. I have to PLAN :P ...
(well, maybe NOT organizing the queue in Skövde like in 2003 - I nowadays live in Stockholm :) ...)
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Ataahua
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Nov 15, 8:27pm
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Wow, having the extended versions on the big screen would be amazing. Do you know if they're screening them all on one day or on subsequent days?
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
Fantasy novel - The Arcanist's Tattoo
My LOTR fan-fiction
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Ioreth
Ossiriand
Nov 15, 8:37pm
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all three at once I understand
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Wow, having the extended versions on the big screen would be amazing. Do you know if they're screening them all on one day or on subsequent days?
The description says all three in one day. 30 minutes between 1 and 2 and 60 minutes between 2 and 3.
But it does not specify WHICH cinemas this will be shown in.
I guess I am rather safe here in the Stockholm area, that at least one or two WILL do this. But I so wish it would be more!
Fimstaden is the biggest cinema chain still here in Sweden.
I lived in a rather rural area for most of my life - and still we gathered enough fans to queue for tickets for both #1 (some hours before, I was #1 in that queue) and #2 (camped in line for like several hours. And then the TORN line party we had for #3 - friday evening to monday morning :) Ah, those were the times!!!!
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Ioreth
Ossiriand
Wed, 7:15am
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Was at filmstaden in Täby Centrum yesterday.
She confirmed there WiLL be a marathon and very probably in several cinemas.
I have contacted Filmstaden's customer service to try to get more information about WHEN the tickets will start selling and more information about how many cinemas in which parts of Sweden this will be done. No reply yet.
But if you still have some kind of news page here on TORN with information about events and news please feel free to post the information there so we can get the information out - the sooner the better.
It might even perhaps help if someone from the TORN team could contact them and ask? You are still one of the biggest Tolkien fandom communities out there :)
https://www.filmstaden.se/film/sagan-om-ringen-extended-maraton-klassiker/
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Ioreth
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Fri, 6:44am
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https://www.filmstaden.se/film/sagan-om-ringen-extended-maraton-klassiker/?date=2025-12-13
Stockholm, Göteborg, Lund, Jönköping, Gävle, Helsingborg, Örebro, Umeå, Luleå, Växjö, Västerås, Karlstad, Linköping, Norrköping are the ones currently listed, more "might be added on Wednesday".
359 SEK for all Three it seems (+20 if you choose extra relaxing and folding table)
I have my precioussssss ticketsssesss :)
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Lissuin
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Fri, 11:57pm
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All three extended versions on the big screen at once?! You will love it.
I was an American living in Stockholm when the LOTR films first came out. I was afraid the films would ruin the books, which I loved, for me. It was several weeks after FOTR opened before I finally decided to give it a try, after friends assured me that Jackson had really done Tolkien proud. There were only about two other people in the huge Filmstaden Segel at Hötorget by then, if you can imagine that. There was no one seated in front of me, so it felt as if I were at my own private viewing. It will be just as wonderful if you are surrounded by enthusiastic fans, as I also got to do in Wellington a few years ago after moving here. Husband and I have moved around a bit, but Tolkien is always there. Say hej to Täby Centrum for me! I know it well.
Fun fact: It was in about 2006 that I noticed Flat White coffees started featuring at the McDonald's on Sveavägen near Hötorget. That was no doubt thanks to Sir Peter and his Kiwi influence. What do you reckon? 
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Chen G.
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Sat, 10:00am
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That's what a marathon should be, in my book. 
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Chen G.
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But that is where we're headed, isn't it?! And if you're also counting "The War of The Rohirrim", that would be EIGHT!!!!!!!!
Well, at present I'm counting the six films plus Rohirrim, ergo seven. With Gollum, it will be eight.
Although Rohirrim is ostensibly a "spinoff" entirely on a bubble by itself, when you stop to think about it, it works tremendously well as a prelude.
I always felt An Unexpected Journey was a little too long and slow to really kick off the marathon with high energy. The War of the Rohirrim does so much better.
It also sets-up Rohan for much later on, so that instead of popping into the story seemingly at random, it's actually CIRCLING BACK into the storytelling. But it's all far enough apart that when Edoras shows up, you don't feel like "Again with this?" (The "Tatooine effect" of the Star Wars prequel trilogy).
It also contrasts wonderfully with An Unexpected Journey, and not just because of the setup at the end: the war in Rohirrim casts the relative peace and prosperity in An Unexpected Journey into starker relief, which in turn casts the return to war in The Battle of the Five Armies and The Lord of the Rings into starker relief still.
So yeah, all seven says I.
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