- WHERE TO WATCH THE LORD OF THE RINGS EXTENDED TRILOGY MOVIE
- WHERE TO WATCH THE LORD OF THE RINGS EXTENDED TRILOGY FULL
- WHERE TO WATCH THE LORD OF THE RINGS EXTENDED TRILOGY TV
Wasn’t this stuff supposed to be savored? “I love the books,” wrote a follower on Twitter, “but that’s a ridiculously cruel thing to do to yourself.” He had a point. It was as if I was going to stuff piles of delicate sushi into my face Nathan’s hot dog contest style. Some friends blanched when I told them what I was doing. Could the same be said of the book and the 11-and-a-half-hour extended versions of Lord of the Rings?
WHERE TO WATCH THE LORD OF THE RINGS EXTENDED TRILOGY FULL
Peter Jackson’s later movies based on The Hobbit were so bloated that it's easy to read the book faster than watch the full 9-hour extended edition. Unless I sliced through that knot with a read so fast, I wouldn’t have time to even consider switching. Unless … unless I binge-read instead of binge-watched. Decades of nostalgia had settled over a story that was itself filled with nostalgia for a lost age. It stood in for every book I should have read by now, from The Odyssey to Ulysses. If I read it, every sentence would recall the full-of-possibility 7-year-old me. I sent my limited fantasy-reading tolerance their way instead.Įventually, this book I hadn’t really read and a story I’d experienced too much started to feel like a giant psychological knot. Ursula Le Guin, Robert Jordan, Robin Hobb begged to be read. (Obi-Wan=Gandalf, droids=hobbits, Death Star plans=the One Ring, Death Star=Mordor.)Įach time I picked up the doorstop, however, I glanced over at the other great fantasy authors I hadn’t yet experienced in any medium. Especially when I wrote a book on Star Wars and discovered how much George Lucas was inspired by Tolkien. Every time I unpacked, I felt a little more guilty about avoiding it. This doorstop moved with me from house to house.
WHERE TO WATCH THE LORD OF THE RINGS EXTENDED TRILOGY MOVIE
In my 20s, with the first Jackson movie coming out, I bought one of those 150 million copies of the book. In our distracted social media era, in the Golden Age of TV, who has the time? There are long speeches, strange songs and a whole lotta Elvish. The book weighs in at nearly half a million words.
But I'm willing to bet most of those copies sit on shelves, looking at their owners reproachfully, bookmarks stuck in an early chapter. Many read it some read it multiple times. Sure, the book sold an estimated 150 million copies (30 million more than even the bestselling Harry Potter). Jackson’s trilogy, three bottles full of lightning that earned 17 Oscars and nearly $3 billion at the box office, is by far the most likely way you or anyone else experienced Tolkien’s tale. We think of it as a trilogy largely because of the Peter Jackson movies. And yes, Tolkien conceived Lord of the Rings as one novel it was published in three parts because paper was expensive in Britain after World War II. Lord of the Rings has now become so many versions of itself that the original novel - a decade-in-the-making sequel to the only other novel Tolkien actually finished in his life, The Hobbit - seems buried under all the layers.
WHERE TO WATCH THE LORD OF THE RINGS EXTENDED TRILOGY TV
It will be a billion-dollar, five-plus season epic titled - you guessed it - Lord of the Rings.Ī TV show. Last year, the world’s richest man gave an estimated $250 million to the Tolkien estate so he could develop what he hopes is the successor to the global smash hit Game of Thrones, which ends this year.
This May sees the release of Tolkien, a big-budget American movie focused on his early years. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, war veteran and Oxford medieval language professor who died more than 45 years ago, is about to be the subject of another of those global waves of fame that so perplexed him when he was alive.
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