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Preference between Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee in the U.S. Italy: The Lord of the Rings movie series at the box office Lord of the Rings movies: production costs and global box office revenue 2001-2017 The Lords of the Rings Trilogy: domestic and global box office revenue 2018 The Hobbit, which Tolkien had written as a children’s book and which is much shorter than The Lord of the Rings, was adapted into a trilogy as well and turned out to be equally successful in cinemas. There have been other adaptations of the trilogy, for radio, stage, and television, but none were ever that successful.Īfter the immense success of The Lord of the Rings, Jackson then decided to also adapt the prequel. The third part in particular, The Return of the King, was very popular. The ages of his characters differ wildly Gollum is almost 600 years old, while Elrond, the elf, is several thousand years old, and Gandalf the Grey – and later the White – is immortal (for display reasons, both are thus not mentioned here).Īlready an established literary success, the 2001-2003 The Lord of the Rings movie adaptations by Peter Jackson were also extremely successful at the box office and even won several Oscars. Tolkien not only invented a whole universe, he also did not adhere to known age structures when he wrote The Lord of The Rings. Taking full advantage of the perks of the fantasy genre, J.R.R.
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