page_title: Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien
section_title: Film
hierarchical_section_title: Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien / Film
caption_attribution_description: English: Sir Peter Jackson at the world premiere of The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey, held in Wellington, New Zealand, on the 28th November 2012. More photos available at http://keyimagery.com/event/the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-world-premiere-95
context_page_description: The works of J. R. R. Tolkien have served as the inspiration to painters, musicians, film-makers and writers, to such an extent that he is sometimes seen as the "father" of the entire genre of high fantasy.
  Do not laugh! But once upon a time I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic to the level of romantic fairy-story... The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama. Absurd.
  — J. R. R. Tolkien
context_section_description: In the early 1970s John Boorman planned a film of The Lord of the Rings, but the plans never went further. Some of the work done was resurrected for the film Excalibur in 1981.
  Ralph Bakshi directed an animated movie adaptation of The Lord of the Rings in 1978 (partly made with the rotoscope technique), which covered only the first half of The Lord of the Rings. Rankin-Bass covered the second half with a children's TV animation The Return of the King (1980); earlier they had made a TV animation of The Hobbit (1977).
  The Lord of the Rings was adapted as a trilogy of films (2001–2003), directed by Peter Jackson. The Hobbit was adapted as a trilogy (2012–14), with some elements adapted from The Return of the King's Appendices, resulting in noticeable divergences with the novel.
caption: Peter Jackson, director of six Tolkien adaptations, at the site of filming of "Hobbiton" for his The Hobbit trilogy
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