Fellowship Of The Rings' Biggest Book Changes Help Make It LOTR's Best Film
Peter Jackson's first Lord of the Rings installment, The Fellowship of the Ring, was released in 2001, and notably made a few changes from the source material—changes that help make it the best film in the acclaimed series. Jackson's trilogy is widely regarded as one of the best of all time, receiving critical acclaim as well as being a major box-office success. The trilogy was completed with the back-to-back releases of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2002 and 2003 respectively.
As mentioned above, The Lord of the Rings moviesare universally acclaimed, owing in part to the equally applauded book series the films are based on, written by J.R.R Tolkien. The book series was published in three separate volumes, with each title being attributed to each film in Jackson's trilogy, between 1954 and 1955. Since then, the books have become one of the best-selling series ever written. Tolkien's works have become the basis of countless adaptations, as well as other derivative interpretations, across film, TV, video games, and other book series, having helped create and shape the modern fantasy genre.
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Jackson first pitched a Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1995, with the first film being an adaptation of The Hobbit and the following two movies adapting the three LOTR books. This proved difficult in terms of acquiring the film rights for The Hobbit, a series Jackson later directed, and eventually, The Lord of the Rings trilogy was greenlit at New Line Cinema. Production then began in 1997, with the three films shooting concurrently between 1999 and 2000. While the films are known to capture the essence,
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