Middle-earth adaptations

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 94. Chapters: Middle-earth films, Middle-earth games, Middle-earth music, Middle-earth parodies, Middle-earth radio adaptations, Middle-earth theatre, Tolkien artists, Burzum, Bored of the Rings, Margrethe II of Denmark, Bo Hansson, Tove Jansson, The Return of the King, The Road Goes Ever On, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, The Hobbit, Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien, Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, Ian Miller, John Blanche, The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game, Adaptations of The Hobbit, Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings, The Hunt for Gollum, Blind Guardian, Lívia Rusz, Muddle Earth, Seven Kingdoms, Summoning, The Battle of Evermore, Nightfall in Middle-Earth, Ramble On, Born of Hope, The Tolkien Ensemble, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Misty Mountain Hop, Michael William Kaluta, David Wenzel, Alan Lee, A Walking Song, The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers, Hordes of the Things, Glass Hammer, Ted Nasmith, Middle-earth Collectible Card Game, The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, Pauline Baynes, Brothers Hildebrandt, Anke Katrin Eißmann, ElvenQuest, Milein Cosman, Za Frûmi, Morgoth, The Sea-Bell, Shadowfax, John Howe, Sam R. Balcomb, Catherine Karina Chmiel, Fellowship!, Battlelore, Shagrat, Jef Murray, Bilbo's Last Song, The Soddit, Jack Gaughan, Eric Fraser, Music Inspired by The Lord of the Rings, Water Bearer, Horus Engels, Music Inspired by Middle Earth, The Boggit, Isengard, Legends, Michael Hague, Jenny Dolfen, Memories of Middle Earth, Symphony No. 1 "The Lord of the Rings", Cirith Gorgor, Errantry, Gandalf, Middle-earth PBM. Excerpt: The Lord of the Rings is an epic film trilogy consisting of three fantasy adventure films based on the three-volume book of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). The films were directed by Peter Jackson and distributed by New Line Cinema. Considered to be one of the biggest and most ambitious movie projects ever undertaken, with an overall budget of $285 million, the entire project took eight years, with the filming for all three films done simultaneously and entirely in Jackson's native New Zealand. Each film in the trilogy also had Special Extended Editions, released on DVD a year after the theatrical releases. While the films follow the book's general storyline, they do omit some of the plot elements from the novel and include some additions to and other deviations from the source material. Set in the fictional world of Middle-earth, the three films follow the hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) as he and a Fellowship embark on a quest to destroy the One Ring, and thus ensure the destruction of its maker, the Dark Lord Sauron. The Fellowship becomes divided and Frodo continues the quest together with his loyal companion Sam (Sean Astin) and the treacherous Gollum (Andy Serkis). Meanwhile, the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), heir in exile to the throne of Gondor, unite and rally the Free Peoples of Middle-earth, who are ultimately victorious in the War of the Ring. The trilogy was a great financial success, with the films collectively being the sixth highest-grossing film series of all-time (behind Harry Potter, James Bond, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Shrek). The films were critically acclaimed and heavily awarded, winning 17 out of 30 Academy Awards nominated in total. ...