‘Lord of the Rings’ Extended Editions Return to Theaters as ‘Fellowship of the Ring’ Turns 25 (EXCLUSIVE)

I will take this opportunity to point out that every HD release of Fellowship's extended edition has suffered from severely altered color grading compared to the original DVD version.
The theatrical 1080p Bluray versions are fine, but Fellowship's extended edition Bluray was mistakenly shipped with a strong green tint throughout, which was never addressed (should have been a recall).
In 2020 the movies were rereleased as 4k "remasters", and while these versions fixed the green tint, the color grading is still different from what the movies originally looked like, and beyond that Peter Jackson made additional changes like turning every flashback scene black&white and adding a blurry vignette. Certain practical effects were also digitally replaced, reminiscent of the Star Wars special editions. These versions also suffer from excessive Digital Noise Reduction which makes actors faces look like wax figures, and removes all film grain. The movies now look like they were shot on an iPhone.

There is a Color Restoration fan edit for Fellowship which restores the original DVD colors, but you will have to find the torrent for that yourself.

Hopefully we'll eventually get proper unaltered 4k scans of the original film prints. Until then, stick with the 1080p Blurays and the Fellowship fan edit.

I did all three extended editions in a theater. It has premium seats and great food. It just wasn’t worth it.

I watched a triple feature of the extended edition in a cinema years ago. What an experience, to spend the entire day there. During a break we got Chinese takeout, the people from the cinema didn't care. But the people sitting in front of us were annoyed. Or jealous, because they didn't have this genius idea and instead had to eat the overpriced garbage from the concession stand. I prefer to believe it's the latter.