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Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) lives a simple life with his fellow hobbits in the shire, until the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) arrives and convinces him to join a group of dwarves on a quest to reclaim the kingdom of Erebor. The journey takes Bilbo on a path through treacherous lands swarming with orcs, goblins and other dangers, not the least of which is an encounter with Gollum (Andy Serkis) and a simple gold ring that is tied to the fate of Middle Earth in ways Bilbo cannot even fathom. Let's discuss what purchasing the Trilogy/ExT Cut will bring you. If you are wondering what scenes the extended edition brings, you should go to the extended versions for each individual movie on Amazon. You can read about them in their review section. Anthony L. has done a great job of listing all of them with great detail. Here’s the extended edition running times for each movie: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – 182 minutes (theatrical: 169 minutes) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – 186 minutes (theatrical: 161 minutes) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – 174 minutes (theatrical: 144 minutes) Prices for each individual Blu-Ray Extended Edition on Amazon The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – $27.77 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – $29.99 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, blu-ray version comes out November 17th– $22.93 Total for buying the Blu-rays separately = $80.69 So, this set here would be over 20 dollars cheaper than buying all three sets separately. Overall, a good deal and it will come with 3 blu-ray extended editions, 27 hours total of extra footage, interviews, commentaries, and a lot of behind the scenes.