Lord of the Rings

By: Leigh Held New York, New York - Before green-screens and stuntmen, J.R.R. Tolkien was working as a university professor to pay his bills and writing The Lord of the Rings . It took Tolkien over a decade to complete his work, and for commercial purposes, it was published in three novels instead of one.  In 1973, Tolkien passed away three years before Peter Jackson made his first commercial movie in Hollywood. Jackson and Howard Shore brought Middle Earth to life in the Lord of the Ring

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