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His underlings were not fond of him at all and served him far more out of fear than out of either respect or loyalty. No one liked Sauron, as he was the embodiment of evil in Middle-earth.note Fellowship won 4, Two Towers won 2, and Return of the King won 11 - it shares the record for most Oscar wins for a single film ever with Ben-Hur (1959) and Titanic (1997), and holds the record for the biggest 'sweep', winning all the awards it was nominated for. The results were astonishingly critically and commercially successful, with each film grossing more than $750 million (averaging more than $1 billion after being adjusted for inflation), and with all three winning Oscars. Unusual for such a thing, Peter Jackson has stated that the Extended Editions are not an actual Director's Cut (feeling the term would unfairly imply that he was unsatisfied with the theatrical releases) but merely a fan-friendly extension to enlarge the world of Middle-earth and see what things they left out of the faster-paced theatrical versions. note Around 12 minutes of that extra run time is credits added for the fan community website. The theatrical versions were lengthy epics (all clocking around at 3-ish hours), and the "Extended Editions" (released before the succeeding movies) added at least another half-hour to each film's running time.
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Among the most significant changes include Saruman's last scene, the characterizations of Aragorn, Gimli, Faramir, Denethor, and Arwen, as well as the removal of various subplots to make the story as a whole more appealing to movie audiences or to streamline their remarkably nuanced events from the books. The films were remarkably faithful in many respects, though many changes had to be made due to the many factors involved with adapting such a monumental work.