I did it! Completed the LotR trilogy!
I initially posted that watching Fellowship of the Ring extended edition was quite a bore to me, but I was able to sit through the other two movies no issue via extended versions.
I’m not sure I could rate these yet though. I do not know the lore of LotR/The Hobbit well to fully judge it. Nonetheless, an interesting, thrilling, and adventurous slice of Middle Earth’s history!