On one level, they could have included all of the material from the book. On another level, I'd really rather not sit in a theater for 5 hours watching 700 different endings. The special release edition was cool, but only because I watched with intermissions.
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If RotK was longer I probably would have shot myself in the head halfway through, considering I was contemplating doing that right before it ended when I first saw it.