This thread is pretty cool.

I've been wanting the watch the Lord of the Rings movies again as I started a D&D campaign and doing that makes me want to watch the movies. I'd love to just sit and watch all the Extended Editions in a row, but I don't have that kind of time anymore. I did in college, however, and I jumped all over the Lord of the Rings Marathon they had in theaters before RotK came out. Did anyone else go to one of these?

They actually printed the Extended Editions to film for this, and showed the first two movies in their extended form (with breaks inbetween them), and then after another break they showed RotK a couple hours before the midnight release. It was so much fun, though we didn't have the best seats and all of my friends and I got cricks in our necks from staring at an angle for 14 hours!