Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true. Select from options at the end:

New Zealand film director Peter Jackson is to make a 264-million-New Zealand-dollar (133 million U.S. dollars) trilogy based on Tolkien's fantasy classic "Lord of The Rings," the local TV station reported Tuesday evening.

Hypothesis: Tolkien wrote the fantasy epic called "Lord of the Rings".
Options: a. yes b. no
The answer is
a.