Peter Jackson’s extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring has a running time of 208 minutes.
That length equals 3 hours and 28 minutes. The extended cut adds scenes and material to the theatrical version, including expanded character moments, additional world-building and more context for the journey from the Shire to Rivendell and beyond.
The theatrical release is shorter, running 178 minutes. Because both versions are widely watched and discussed, answers that give only “three hours” are incomplete, while the much longer runtimes of the extended editions of the sequels can also cause mix-ups.
The film was the first part of Jackson’s trilogy based on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Its extended edition was released on home video after the theatrical release and became part of the trilogy’s influential special-edition presentation.