During an appearance on BBC ‘s Film 2011 with Claudia Winkleman, The Office and Extras co-creator Stephen Merchant revealed that he’s never understood the appeal of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and admitted that when he was forced to watch the directors cuts; he was bored out of his mind…

“I just can’t get into it, I am bored out of my mind. Someone made me watch the director’s cuts – I think it goes on for nine or ten hours. You can get to Tokyo in that time. It’s this endless journey that just goes on and on for hours.

He destroys the ring and you think, ‘Brilliant, how are they going to get home?’. Then a giant bird turns up and they fly home! Where was the bird at the beginning?”

He did add however, that if Peter Jackson called him up to appear in the prequel Hobbit movies he would jump at the chance…

“If Peter Jackson offers me a role in any of his films obviously I will take it. I’m not an idiot. I’m a hypocrite but I’m not an idiot,”

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