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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Insiders' Guide
The official Movie Guide for younger readers, this highly-illustrated book is filled with interviews, facts and figures on the forthcoming film!
This highly-illustrated Movie Guide features black and white photos on every spread, together with 16 pages of stunning colour photos. It is packed with interviews with the cast and crew, background to the film, features on special effects, monsters and make-up and also, how Peter Jackson’s vision became a reality!
Brian Sibley spent weeks in New Zealand with the film team gathering material for this fun and insightful book.
This highly-illustrated Movie Guide features black and white photos on every spread, together with 16 pages of stunning colour photos. It is packed with interviews with the cast and crew, background to the film, features on special effects, monsters and make-up and also, how Peter Jackson’s vision became a reality!
Brian Sibley spent weeks in New Zealand with the film team gathering material for this fun and insightful book.
96 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2001
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J.R.R. Tolkien
792 books77.6k followersJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets.
Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly.
Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium’ that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children’s stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly.
Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium’ that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children’s stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
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November 13, 2012
12/11/12: I seem to have misplaced this book, and it's bothering me no end. I'm sure I bought all the tie-in books (wouldn't be like me to miss one) and I've located all the rest. Annoying.
13/11/12 @ 02.00ish: Found it! Knew it was somewhere.
Later: This is actually a great little book. Don't write it off as a cheesy tie-in book, or a book for kids, because it's a good, quick read. It is a little simpler and much less detailed than Brian Sibley's other LotR Movie Guides, but if you just want to know a little more about the films and how they were made this does the job. It's a shame that it wasn't produced in full colour on glossy paper like all the other related books were. It's like the rather crummy photo guide takes all the glory, while this gets a little overlooked.
Brian Sibley is a fantastic author, and this is written well. It's aimed at children so it is, as I said, simpler but it's not at all patronising. To my great shame I haven't actually read his much larger and more complete adult Movie Guide version, but I will sometime soon (although I'm sure I'll read his one for The Hobbit first). Brian's adaptation of The Lord of the Rings will always be the best one, so do listen to it if you haven't already (in which case, listen to it again!).
13/11/12 @ 02.00ish: Found it! Knew it was somewhere.
Later: This is actually a great little book. Don't write it off as a cheesy tie-in book, or a book for kids, because it's a good, quick read. It is a little simpler and much less detailed than Brian Sibley's other LotR Movie Guides, but if you just want to know a little more about the films and how they were made this does the job. It's a shame that it wasn't produced in full colour on glossy paper like all the other related books were. It's like the rather crummy photo guide takes all the glory, while this gets a little overlooked.
Brian Sibley is a fantastic author, and this is written well. It's aimed at children so it is, as I said, simpler but it's not at all patronising. To my great shame I haven't actually read his much larger and more complete adult Movie Guide version, but I will sometime soon (although I'm sure I'll read his one for The Hobbit first). Brian's adaptation of The Lord of the Rings will always be the best one, so do listen to it if you haven't already (in which case, listen to it again!).
October 13, 2017
Sabe a poco. Demasiado poco.
June 6, 2008
Good as a quick introduction to the story. Typical stuff that pops up as a blockbuster by-product.
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April 11, 2010The Fellowship of the Ring Insiders' Guide (The Lord of the Rings Movie Tie-In) by Brian Sibley (2001)
October 24, 2009
Doesn't add anything to someone who already has a substancial LOTR and LOTR movie collection.
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