UPDATE: And now it's official. Peter Jackson confirms the news on Facebook. Show 15 years ago, when Peter Jackson first set out to make a movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy series The Lord of the Rings, the director could barely get a two-movie version approved. In fact, at one point Bob Weinstein (originally of Miramax, now The Weinstein Company) wanted Jackson to shrink the massive three-book story into one measly two-hour movie. Luckily, Jackson and the prescient folks at New Line worked out a deal to turn what was a trilogy on paper into a trilogy at the box office. Logic won the day—and a boatload of Academy Awards. Since then, however, Hollywood has taken notice of the massive earning potential of sequels. With multi-film adaptations proving to be long-term money-makers that keep drawing in viewers (a phenomenon one might give some credit to Jackson's work on The Lord of the Rings), executives realized that if they could stretch out popular books into two movies, they could actually double their money. First, Warner Brothers split the seventh Harry Potter book into The Deathly Hallows Part 1 and Part 2. Sure, the book is long and the additional screen time allowed the studio to fill out details they might have skipped in one movie. But it was still a blatant cash grab—albeit one that worked. Meanwhile, the folks at Lionsgate made the same move with the fourth and final Twilight novel, turning it into Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2. The second movie will be released in November and will undoubtedly be a massive blockbuster. Now Lionsgate is applying the same logic to their Hunger Games trilogy, which will, of course, be a four-parter. More films = more money. I get it, and I'm not wholly averse to the process. After all, I put out for a HP7 Part 2 ticket , just like I did for all the previous movies (although count me out of Twilight). But there have to be limits. In recent days, reports have emerged that Peter Jackson is in talks with Warner Brothers to split his adaptation of The Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit, into three movies. Jackson was already planning to take the one book and turn it into two films—An Unexpected Journey and There and Back Again. It's such standard practice at this point that I didn't give it much thought. Of course they would stretch the cash cow into two movies. And with Jackson's penchant for directing movies that blow past three hours in length, maybe giving him two separate canvases to work with wouldn't be such a bad thing. But three movies out of one book? Let's try to put this in context. I own paperback editions of all three books in The Lord of the Rings series, as well as The Hobbit. Here's how long they each are (excluding appendices):
For those keeping score at home, that's 1,241 pages for the main trilogy (#2-4) versus just 304 for the prequel. Individually, each of those books is longer than The Hobbit, and yet they each only received a single film treatment. How is Jackson going to turn the prequel, which is actually less than one-fourth the total length of main trilogy (and contains many fewer separate plot lines), into a movies series just as long? It's the illogical but inevitable conclusion of Hollywood's never-ending quest for more dollars, at the expense of story and original artistic intent. And it's going to turn one of the world's best fantasy novels into a big screen farce. Still, I wouldn't bet against it at the box office.
 English 0063270889 Begin your journey into Middle-earth. A New Legend Begins on Prime Video, in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. “A unique, wholly realized other world, evoked from deep in the well of Time, massively detailed, absorbingly entertaining, profound in meaning.”—The New York Times Related collections and offersAbout the AuthorJ.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892–1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. Date of Birth: January 3, 1892 Date of Death: September 2, 1973 Place of Birth: Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (South Africa) Place of Death: Oxford, England Education: B.A., Exeter College, Oxford University, 1915; M.A., 1919 Customer ReviewsHow long is Lord of the Rings book 1?The Hobbit: 304 pages. The Fellowship of the Ring: 479.
How many pages in The Lord of the Rings books?The original manuscripts, which total 9,250 pages, now reside in the J. R. R. Tolkien Collection at Marquette University.
How many pages are in The Lord of the Rings book 3?Product Details. Which Lord of the Rings book is longest?The longest single book Tolkien wrote was The Fellowship of the Ring, but even that's nothing when compared to all three parts of The Lord of the Rings gathered into one volume.
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