Peter Jackson once again delivers big on creating a beautiful depiction of Middle Earth. I loved all the extra footage from the appendices of The Lord of the Rings that further delves into the happenings in Middle Earth while the storyline of The Hobbit take place. It adds a much more direct connection between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings- one of the opening scenes in The Hobbit (Bilbo getting ready to write down his adventure) takes place the same day as one of the opening Scenes in Fellowship of the Ring (which I thought was REALLY awesome how they did that). Didn't find it slow at all, as some critics seemed to be saying. Will be seeing again.