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Lord of the Rings : ‘lost’ scripts

Written by TV adaptations in In the news. on 13 March 2022 à 13:55

Hoard of the rings: ‘lost’ scripts for BBC Tolkien drama discovered

Original manuscripts show how author rewrote scenes for 1950s adaptation of his Middle-earth epic Lord of the Rings

by Dalya Alberge

Sat 12 Mar 2022

The Guardian

Decades before Peter Jackson directed his epic adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien was involved with the first ever dramatisation of his trilogy, but its significance was not realised in the 1950s and the BBC’s audio recordings are believed to have been destroyed.

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