Every year since the extended version of the trilogy came out, my family and I manage to watch “The Lord of the Rings” over a three day period over Christmas.
Not a bad deal, especially if your are a Tolkien fan. I won’t bore you with any of the details, the Catholic references, the moralistic prose or how much better the book really is than the movie (if that can be imagined).
The short version is that as a family, we’ll sit down and enjoy about three hours of collective story-telling an evening. I probably enjoy that more than anything else over Christmas, with the exception of a Sunrise Mass.