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The Lord of the Rings
movie series
is a set of three fantasy movies:
The Fellowship of the Ring
(2001),
The Two Towers
(2002) and
The Return of the King
(2003). The movies were based on
J. R. R. Tolkien
's book
The Lord of the Rings
.
The plot of The Lord of the Rings is about the war of the peoples of the fantasy world Middle-earth against a dark lord known as "Sauron." At the same time they try to destroy a ring which would give Sauron a lot of power if he got it, but the only place to destroy the ring is deep into Sauron's land Mordor.
The movie trilogy was directed by
Peter Jackson
. The
screenplay
was written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson. It was distributed by
New Line Cinema
.
These were the first live-action
Lord of the Rings
movies made. They were filmed in
New Zealand
from October 1999 to December 2000, and released separately in December 2001?2003 by
Warner Bros.
Jackson returned for a prequel
The Hobbit
trilogy
and two more movies are in development: an animated
The War of the Rohirrim
prequel movie and a live-action
The Hunt for Gollum
movie.
The cast includes:
Compared to the book, the
Lord of the Rings
movies differed in many ways. The plot and motivation of the characters changed, and parts of the story were cut. A few changes that many consider major include: "The Old Forest", "In the House of Tom Bombadil", and "Fog on the Barrow-Downs", from
The Fellowship of the Ring
; "Many Partings", "Homeward Bound", & "The Scouring of the Shire" from
The Return of the King
. These were left out, and other passages changed, because of dramatic flow and practical limits on what could be presented in three movies. The scripts are not exactly true to the story in the volumes of the book, yet have most of its most important elements.
- Together the three movies were nominated for 30
Oscars
at the Academy Awards. They won 17 Oscars, 11 of which were for
Return of the King
.
- The 3 movies cost 281 million dollars to make.
- Much of the filming was done in
New Zealand
, but some areas were made using computers.
- Each movie has a Special Extended Edition DVD which has a longer version of the movie.
- Together the movies are longer than 11 hours.
- All together the movies have more than 3,500
special effects
.
- Each movie was released a few weeks before
Christmas
in 2001, 2002, and 2003.
- The movies made nearly 3 billion dollars.
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