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All these movies are among the biggest grossers on the box office, worldwide. Peter jackson required complete realism and plausibility in his vision of middleearth, and hired weta workshop to create the various pieces of armour, weapons, prosthetics and creatures seen in the trilogy, as well as aged costumes and historically influenced sets. I count myself lucky to have been able to read this book before it became a movie, though i loved the movie, too. The lord of the rings cliffsnotes study guides book. Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, with much of it being written during world war ii, it was originally published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955.
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