‘The Lord of the Rings’ is an adaptation of J. R. R Tolkien’s extraordinary novel by the same name into three films (directed by Peter Jackson). The movies were filmed together, and released one year after the other, from 2001-2003.
The films are subtitled ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ (2001), ‘The Two Towers’ (2002) and ‘The Return of the King’ (2003). The films were remarkably faithful to the novel in many respects, though several changes were made, due to the many factors involved with adapting such a great work.
The films were critically acclaimed and awarded widely, winning 17 out of 30 total Academy Award nominations. The final film in the series, ‘The Return of the King’, won all 11 of its Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, which also tied it with ‘Ben-Hur’ and ‘Titanic’ for most Academy Awards received for a film. Peter Jackson also directed three films based on Tolkien’s earlier 1937 novel ‘The Hobbit’.
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