“Fellowship of the Ring” Film Brings Tolkien’s Middle Earth to Big Screens
It all began in 1937, when a British publisher took a gamble on a book about Hobbits by a philologist and professor of old English literature. Half a million words later, the Lord of the Rings trilogy was born. The series has sold more than 50 million copies and inspired the first in a series of highly anticipated films.
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