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From 2000, fans were posting poems, stories and humorous pieces to the FanFiction.net website. [24] [25] Growth was greatly accelerated by the appearance in 2001–2003 of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. [24] Soon after Jackson's films came out, mailing lists started to be replaced by specialised archives.
Foster attributes the surge of Tolkien fandom in the United States of the mid-1960s to a combination of the hippie subculture and anti-war movement pursuing "mellow freedom like that of the Shire" and "America's cultural Anglophilia" of the time, fuelled by a bootleg paperback version of The Lord of the Rings published by Ace Books followed up by an authorised edition by Ballantine Books. [8]
Commentators have compared Peter Jackson's 2001–2003 The Lord of the Rings film trilogy with the book on which it was based, J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954–1955 The Lord of the Rings, remarking that while both have been extremely successful commercially, the film version does not necessarily capture the intended meaning of the book.
The 2005–2010 Narnia film trilogy adapted from the novel series by Tolkien's friend C. S. Lewis were produced due to the popularity of The Lord of the Rings. George R. R. Martin acknowledged that Tolkien influenced his 2011–2019 Game of Thrones TV series and novels about medieval fantasy, while speaking about a movie about Tolkien's life.
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All. Open Court. pp. 5– 20. ISBN 978-0-81269-545-8. OCLC 863158193. Kellner, Douglas (2006). "The Lord of the Rings as Allegory: A Multiperspectivist Reading". In Ernest Mathijs; Murray Pomerance (eds.). From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. Vol. 3 ...
'The Rings of Power' Makes 'Lord of the Rings' a Boring Slog in a Lifeless Season 2: TV Review Amazon to Launch 'Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Season 1 for Free on Samsung TV in ...
Season 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power began streaming its first three episodes Aug. 29 on Prime Video — and already, strong feelings are rolling in about the much-anticipated J.R ...
Ringers: Lord of the Fans is a 2005 documentary film investigating the growth of the Tolkien fandom all the way from the release of The Hobbit book by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003).