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The Fellowship of the Ring Insiders' Guide
The official tie-in companion for younger readers, packed with fascinating facts, on-set interviews and unique photos from the filming of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Brian Silbey goes behind the cameras and reveals just how much work, time, creativity and endless imagination are involved in bringing the movie phenomenon The Fellowship of the Ring to a theater near you...
80 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2001
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Brian Sibley
101 books100 followersBrian Sibley is an English writer, broadcaster, and award-winning dramatist.
The author of over 100 hours of radio drama and hundreds of documentaries and features for the BBC, he is best known for his acclaimed 1981 radio adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, co-written with Michael Bakewell, as well as dramatizations of C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast novels, and Richard Adams’s Watership Down.
Sibley has also written numerous original plays for radio, presented popular BBC programmes including Kaleidoscope and Talking Pictures, and produced documentaries on figures ranging from Lewis Carroll and Ray Bradbury to Julie Andrews and Walt Disney.
His contributions to broadcasting have earned him accolades such as the Sony Radio Award and the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Adaptation.
In print, Sibley is the author of many acclaimed film “making of” books, including Harry Potter: Film Wizardry, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy, and Peter Jackson: A Filmmaker’s Journey, as well as companion volumes for The Hobbit films, The Golden Compass, and Disney classics. His literary works range from Shadowlands to children’s books like The Frightful Food Feud and Osric the Extraordinary Owl, with stories appearing in official Winnie-the-Pooh collections.
A noted Disney historian, Sibley has contributed essays to The Walt Disney Film Archives and recorded DVD commentaries for classic films. He is the editor of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Númenor, winner of the Tolkien Society’s Best Book award in 2023.
Sibley has served as President and Chair of The Lewis Carroll Society and is an honorary member of The Magic Circle, the Tolkien Society, and The Children’s Books History Society.
The author of over 100 hours of radio drama and hundreds of documentaries and features for the BBC, he is best known for his acclaimed 1981 radio adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, co-written with Michael Bakewell, as well as dramatizations of C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast novels, and Richard Adams’s Watership Down.
Sibley has also written numerous original plays for radio, presented popular BBC programmes including Kaleidoscope and Talking Pictures, and produced documentaries on figures ranging from Lewis Carroll and Ray Bradbury to Julie Andrews and Walt Disney.
His contributions to broadcasting have earned him accolades such as the Sony Radio Award and the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Adaptation.
In print, Sibley is the author of many acclaimed film “making of” books, including Harry Potter: Film Wizardry, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy, and Peter Jackson: A Filmmaker’s Journey, as well as companion volumes for The Hobbit films, The Golden Compass, and Disney classics. His literary works range from Shadowlands to children’s books like The Frightful Food Feud and Osric the Extraordinary Owl, with stories appearing in official Winnie-the-Pooh collections.
A noted Disney historian, Sibley has contributed essays to The Walt Disney Film Archives and recorded DVD commentaries for classic films. He is the editor of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Númenor, winner of the Tolkien Society’s Best Book award in 2023.
Sibley has served as President and Chair of The Lewis Carroll Society and is an honorary member of The Magic Circle, the Tolkien Society, and The Children’s Books History Society.
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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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