How many minutes long is the extended edition of The Return of the King?

Movies & TV medium Data from 2004

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Answer in minutes. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

263 minutes

The extended cut runs 263 minutes — four hours and 23 minutes. Watching all three extended Lord of the Rings films back to back takes over 11 hours, which is longer than a flight from Madrid to Tokyo.

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Source New Line Cinema home video release
Figure refers to 2004
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