Long Lost Scripts For Tolkien's Original Lord of the Rings Adaptation Found
Manuscripts for the very firstLord of the Rings adaption in the 1950s, long thought lost, have been uncovered by scholars. The discovery comes as the newest Lord of the Rings adaption from Amazon approaches its release date. Amazon's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV series is set to release on September 2, 2022. The show takes place thousands of years before the events ofThe Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, and chronicles the Second Age of Middle Earth, including Sauron's rise to power and the fall of Númenor.
Filming has already wrapped for The Rings of Power season 1. The season, which was filmed in New Zealand, will consist of 8 episodes. While the series will feature the return of several familiar characters, such as Eldron and Galadriel, they have been recast as younger actors to align with the time period. The series has caught some attention for its massive budgets of over $1 billion, with season 1 alone costing $462 million. While today's adaptions of Lord of the Rings come with big budgets, earlier adaptions did not.
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As reported byThe Guardian, long lost manuscripts from J. R. R. Tolkien's first Lord of the Rings adaption have been discovered. The manuscripts mark the only dramatization of the Lord of the Rings during Tolkien's lifetime. First written in the 1950s, their significance was not recognized and they were thought to have been destroyed. However, an Oxford academic, Stuart Lee, has now uncovered these original scripts for two series of 12 radio episodes broadcast in 1955 and 1956. Check out Lee's statement below:
«They said the scripts had been lost, but they have survived – the only professional dramatisation of The Lord of
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