If you need all six of Peter Jackson's films from the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings timeline and you need them on Blu-ray discs in bulky cases with oodles of extra discs, you can already buy those right now for around $125. But if you're the super-nerd who prefers the "collector's edition" version of your favorite releases, complete with limited-edition swag and over-the-top presentation, you've been out of luck with the Tolkien films—until this year.

Make no mistake, when New Line Cinema calls something the Middle Earth Ultimate Collector's Edition, the company doesn't mess around... at least, in terms of pricing. Welcome to possibly the most expensive Blu-ray box set ever, costing a cool $800 and launching on October 4.

Since it's an Amazon exclusive, that retail price doesn't apply in its pre-order state. Amazon aggressively prices many of its pre-orders with a 10 percent discount, so for now, the ultimate Tolkien Blu-ray offering costs just $720.

What exactly do you get by paying essentially a $595 upgrade price? After all, no new disc content is coming to this 30-disc set. The priciest part of the UCE appears to be a wooden shelf complete with a carved logo on both of its sides. A preview video for the set shows a few close-up shots of that shelf, but it doesn't look particularly ornate. If New Line isn't advertising who's carving or putting the wooden piece together, chances are it's not a renowned shop doing the work.

Otherwise, the disc cases are getting a bump to "faux-leather" material, and inside, their pages will be covered by giant photo reprints of film scenes that were picked by Jackson's Twitter followers. A 100-page book will tuck into the case's bottom cut-out, and it will be the set's Red Book of Westmarch—but it's hard to tell how much of that book will look like hobbit scribblings and how much will include, say, stories and content from the sets of the films. The boxed set also includes at least two standalone maps, but they're the same size as the book, presumably for packaging's sake, so don't expect to get something big to frame.

Fans have already taken to Amazon's review system to knock the package for not including supplemental material that Jackson has hinted at in past interviews. Plus, the new offering only includes the films' extended versions as opposed to the theatrical ones. One reviewer takes a swipe at the price by saying, "There is nothing in this collection that would even remotely be worth that much unless you carved the wooden shelf out of an actual Ent." (Considering Amazon is the only seller for this unreleased set, I find it odd that Amazon is already allowing reviews of it, but, hey, what do I know?)