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Welcome to The Hobbit Hole! And Whither Then? I Cannot Say... First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit holeSecond thread: The New Hobbit HoleThird thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet... The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way...

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole! Where Many Paths and Errands Meet... First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit holeSecond thread: The New Hobbit HoleThird thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On... The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say....

Legolas the elf, Gandalf the wizard and Aragorn, heir of Isildur, return for the final installment of New Line Cinema's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "The Return of the King." Dec. 08, 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King By David Hunter Bottom line: Well, Frodo is back in theaters and so will be a multitude of moviegoers. Opens Wed., Dec. 17 NEW YORK -- An epic success and a history-making production that finishes with a masterfully entertaining final installment, New Line Cinema's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of...

For the third year in a row, SoundtrackNet had an opportunity to talk with prolific composer Howard Shore about his work on the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy. This time, we talked with him about the final chapter in the saga, Return of the King, as well as his plans for the next year. This is now the third year for Lord of the Rings, with the final chapter: The Return of the King. Given that you had The Two Towers: Expanded Edition to compose, did you get a break before starting in on this final film?No, I never...

On a recent Tuesday, the composer Howard Shore left his hotel in London and climbed into a black Mercedes for the forty-five-minute drive to Watford, an unromantic suburb northwest of the city. There, in the Watford Colosseum, a municipal dance hall opposite a tanning salon, a sweetshop, and a pharmacy, Shore was working on the score for “The Return of the King,” the last movie in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, a project that has occupied him for the past three years and will soon be completed. “I knew the acoustics of this Watford room,” Shore explained. “It’s been...

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<p>With "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," the filmmakers had a distinct challenge. As the middle section of a trilogy, the movie could neither end nor begin. Moreover, director Peter Jackson and crew were adapting a book that consists largely of a series of battles. What they've devised will almost certainly please the book's fans for its fidelity to pace and story. Yet newcomers may occasionally feel thwarted by a narrative that follows three distinct sets of characters for most of its running time.</p>

Fraud of the rings? Evil has been unleashed on the film world, a bane that threatens to darken the industry for ever. The monster franchise that is The Lord of the Rings is upon us again. But is the movie any good? It doesn't matter, laments Steve Jelbert 13 December 2002 Just as the year comes to an end, the second part of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy appears with the shameless tagline, "This Xmas the journey continues in... The Two Towers", a gloriously inappropriate way to promote the world's favourite modern pagan epic. It's unlikely, though, that...

Besides capturing readers' imaginations and thrilling moviegoers, the fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings" has won high praise from religious groups for what they see as Christian values in the story.

New Line's "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" topped weekend box office rankings for a fourth consecutive frame with an estimated $16.2 million. That brought domestic cume to $228.3 million through 26 days. Combined with an estimated $280 million in foreign B.O. for the Peter Jackson-helmed fantasy, "Rings" now has grabbed more than $500 million worldwide. Universal/Imagine's Russell Crowe starrer "A Beautiful Mind" added 369 theaters for a total 2,222 and finished No. 2 on the weekend with an estimated $15.8 million. Perf moved domestic cume to $59 million. In perhaps the weekend's most downbeat development, Sony's ...

After almost 50 years, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is headed back into the best-seller lists. It is true that it is propelled by the Peter Jackson film, but then what caused the film if not the grateful memory of millions of readers?What has given Tolkien's work its lasting success -- a success achieved in defiance of every commercial consideration (too long, too strange, too hard), and in the teeth of bitter resistance from academic and critical establishments?Could it be its failure to fit any literary category? It is a long prose narrative, which makes it a novel ...

Without a single cute kid or flying broom, the movie of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy comes to thrilling life A lowly hobbit, long content to live quietly with his own unremarkable kind in a remote corner of Middle Earth, is given an audacious challenge: return the Ring of Power to the fiery pit where it was forged and, against all the massed legions of evil, save the world. That was the task of Frodo Baggins in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendary and much-loved The Lord of the Rings. Director Peter Jackson might have felt a bit Frodo-ish when he got the job of ...

<p>It was a huge gamble to make all three movies which make up the "Ring" trilogy at the same time, and it has paid off. Shot in New Zealand over 18 months, these three films ("Fellowship" is the first) are sure to become instant classics.</p>

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment in the highly anticipated movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's famous fantasy trilogy, opens with sweeping shots of an epic landscape in transition. ``The world has changed,'' the narrator intones, and director Peter Jackson's camera immediately takes audiences to a land where special swords alert voyagers of evil creatures. And yet filmgoers may find they're not merely escaping into a magical realm. Instead, the terrible events and moral choices that befall hero Frodo Baggins and his fellow travelers -- wizards and mere mortals with names such as ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Director: Peter Jackson Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett, Sean Astin (Warner Bros., 2001) Rated: PG-13 Release date: 19 December 2001 by Todd R. Ramlow PopMatters Associate Film Editor e-mail this article Beyond Good and Evil? J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series (including, of course, The Hobbit, which is the trilogy's prequel) is the granddaddy of all fantasy-adventure fiction. Although they didn't achieve the immediate runaway success of their most recent literary heir, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, The ...

'Ring' of truth prevails in film Lawrence Toppman The Charlotte Observer Published: Friday, December 14, 2001 Good moviemakers film a novel with loving fidelity, preserving key incidents and characters with the care of museum curators touching up a Michelangelo. Great ones re-imagine the books they put onscreen, daringly reassembling or reshaping the pieces. They're faithful to the spirit rather than the letter; their work is a sun shining with its own light, rather than a moon reflecting illumination from its source. Peter Jackson showed that kind of creativity on "Heavenly Creatures," his 1994 drama about two real-life high school ...

Epic grandeur a good Hobbit to get into By Steve Schneider Unfathomable though it may seem, it takes even more time to watch "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" than it does to say its title. Clocking in at just under three hours, this is a long film by anyone's standard. And, as it is merely the first installment in a trilogy of big-screen epics based on British fantasist J.R.R. Tolkien's massive novel "The Lord of the Rings," the movie cannot offer anything resembling closure. Its 178 minutes wind down to a final reel that ...

Of the novels that have been produced during the twentieth century, J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" has a special place. Some polls of academics have placed this as the greatest of the entire century, and every single fantasy fan in the English speaking world has read it, if only to spend time waiting for the next "Harry Potter" installment. The expectations of the second attempt at filming this are indeed high. This is "Star Wars" and "Harry Potter" put together. Will director Peter Jackson do justice to the original work as Ralph Bakshi did not? Will this blaspheme the ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean, Ian Holm and Andy Serkis Directed by: Peter Jackson Screenplay by: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh Distributor: New Line Running Time: 165 min MPAA Rating: PG-13 Year: 2001 Peter Jackson emphasizes the territorial nature of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth by fascinatingly playing with lines of division. Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) and Sam Gangee (Sean Astin) flee from the Shire with the Great Ring ...

Running rings around his rivals By TIM ROBEYSaturday 15 December 2001 The pitch meeting is already the stuff of Hollywood legend. On one side of the table: Peter Jackson, a talented New Zealand film maker, best known for oddball shock&#45;horror movies and the highly acclaimed curio, Heavenly Creatures, but with no major box&#45;office hit to his name. On the other side: Bob Shaye, chairman of New Line Cinema. Jackson had brought with him a pair of screenplays &#45; the fruit of 18 months' labour &#45; for a proposed two&#45;film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the ...