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Frodo (Elijah Wood) in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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Peter Jackson’s Fellowship Turned Tolkien Into a Pop Culture Behemoth

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Bilbo and the Ring in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Is a Bloody Slog

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The Desolation of Smaug Soars to New Highs and Plummets to New Lows

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Bilbo Baggins Is the Ultimate Icon of Self-Care
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Makes Some Puzzling Detours in Its Quest For More Box Office Gold

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The Lord of the Rings television TV adaptation Amazon Studios J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Return of the King Crowned a New Ruler in Hollywood

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The Two Towers Brings War and Trauma to Middle-earth

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The Fellowship of the Ring and the Memes of Middle-earth

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Frodo (Elijah Wood) in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring Turned Tolkien into a Pop Culture Behemoth

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Middle-earth’s Weirdest Movie: Rankin-Bass’ Animated The Return of the King

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Rankin/Bass’s The Hobbit Showed Us the Future of Pop Culture

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Ralph Bakshi’s Animated The Lord of the Rings Shows the True Perils of Power

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A ringwraith looms over the four hobbits in Ralph Bakshi's animated Lord of the Rings film
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Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings Brought Tolkien from the Counterculture to the Big Screen

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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