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The largest setting in which a unique world could be created is, of course, the imagination. And few people have supplied the imagination with as rich a set of materials for envisioning a fantasy world as has J. R. R. Tolkien in his trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. Some 50 million people have bought The Lord of the Rings since its publication in 1954; in 1999, Amazon.com readers chose the three-volume epic as the best book of the millennium.
Thus, turning this magnum opus into a movie is an intoxicating idea. If the movie could tap into the essence of what made the books so captivating, it would be extraordinary. But the very nature of Tolkien's densely written ...