Directed by Peter Jackson, the Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning adaptations of the popular J.R.R. Tolkein novel had screenplay by Fran Walsh. It tells the tale of Frodo Baggins, a young Hobbit from the village of Shire who has been entrusted with a ring by his Uncle Bilbo and begins an epic journey fraught with danger to the Cracks of Doom. His mission is to destroy the ring before the Dark Lord Sauron can take over Middle Earth and destroy the worlds of all the creators who live in it, but the closer he gets the harder the journey becomes. Whilst filming for all three films (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King) was in New Zealand, the award-winning orchestral music was recorded in the Watford Colosseum in Hertfordshire.
Release / Airing: 19/12/2001
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