The Fellowship set has been since last December. I'd been following its development for a good 18 months prior to its release, swapping many an e-mail with Doug Adams about it and pounced on the box when it finally came out like Smeagol to his precious. It is indeed a lovely release, and the DVD-A is the only DVD-A I own and I am very fond of its two-channel presentation in Trifield (it's offered in both 5.1 and 2 channel for those wondering and there are Dolby 2.0 and 5.1 presentations on there too for those without DVD-A compatible players).

I do wish they hadn't fu**ed up 'In Dreams' and cut off its ending on this set in accordance with the theatrical credits. It's the only time the set bows to an edit made to the music as heard in the film. I was really quite miffed about that since it ends so beautifully in its complete form on the original album, and in the live symphony too in fact.

The Two Towers set is out at the end of October. wink