For years, Lord of the Rings fans have traded rumors about a mythical cut of the trilogy that goes even further than the already massive extended editions. The idea of an “extended-extended edition” has lived on forums and convention floors like a legend passed down through Middle-earth itse

Lords of the Rings fans hoping for another extended edition of Peter Jackson's J.R.R. Tolkien adaptations (à la the fabled Mithril Cut) may want to take a seat.

It turns out that The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson had another Middle-earth story rattling around in his head years ago that he wanted to produce. It wasn’t a sequel. It wasn’t a prequel either. It was something in between. A missing chapter that lived in the margins of J.R.

Elijah Wood is once again stirring excitement in Middle-earth, teasing that The Lord of the Rings cinematic universe may be far from finished. While attention is currently focused on The Hunt for Gollum , Wood revealed that there’s real interest in expanding the franchise even further o