Part One: From Book to Vision is the first of two Appendices to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), featured exclusively as a disc of the Special Extended Edition. It contains four documentaries, spanning 2.5 hours, directed by Michael Pellerin, purposed to cover J.R.R. Tolkien's creation of the story of The Lord of the Rings, and the earliest stages adapting the book to film.

Part Two: From Vision to Reality is the second of two Appendices of the Special Extended Edition of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, featured in its own disc exclusive to the edition. It contains six sections of documentaries directed by Michael Pellerin, which span three hours, and cover the cast's experiences in the filming and reception, and the artistic and digital efforts in the production.

Part Three: The Journey Continues is the first of two Appendices of the Special Extended Edition of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and the third of six overall, featured in its own disc exclusive to the edition. It contains five documentaries, directed by Michael Pellerin, and other exclusive informative features.

Part Four: The Battle for Middle-Earth Begins is the second of two Appendices of the Special Extended Edition of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, featured in its own disc exclusive to the edition. It contains nine documentaries directed by Michael Pellerin, and a gallery. Some features are equivalent to and named the same as documentaries in Part One and Part Two.

Part Five: The War of the Ring is the first of two Appendices of the Special Extended Edition of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, featured in its own disc exclusive to the edition. It contains seven documentaries, spanning three hours, directed by Michael Pellerin, and other interactive features.

Part Six: The Passing of an Age (referring to the Third Age) is the second of two Appendices of the Special Extended Edition of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, featured in its own disc exclusive to the edition. It contains seven documentaries, spanning three hours, directed by Michael Pellerin, some interactive features, and a few short films.

Part Seven: A Long-Expected Journey: The Chronicles of The Hobbit – Part 1, focuses on the production effort of assembling the crew, casting, pre-production, the actual filming and so forth.

Part Eight: Return to Middle-Earth, is broken into sections that look more specifically at all of the elaborate design and visual effects work that went into the film.

Part Nine: Into the Wilderland: The Chronicles of The Hobbit – Part 2. Following in the pattern of the previous discs, this material is much more focused on the nuances of the production design for the film’s new characters and settings, and also its post-production.

Part Ten: The Journey to Erebor. Following in the pattern of the previous discs, this material is much more focused on the nuances of the production design for the film’s new characters and settings, and also its post-production.

Part Eleven: The Gathering Storm. All of the content on this disc forms what is essentially a nearly 5-hour long behind-the-scenes documentary of the filming. The documentary comes in 10 parts.

Part Twelve: Here at Journey’s End. This offers another 5 hours worth of video bonus material in the form of four mini-documentaries.