20 Things You Didn't Know About The Lord Of The Rings
12. Tolkien Began The Story In A Students Workbook
Back in the 20s or 30s, Tolkien had already begun working on his legendarium, but his main focus was still as a professor at Oxford, and, one day while marking School Certificate papers (college entry exams) as a sort of summer job to earn extra money between terms, Tolkien came upon one with a blank page in it. Tolkien was finding the marking to be a work of everlasting weariness, so coming upon a blank leaf must have delighted the professor - so much so that, on the page, he wrote a sentence that, at that point, even he barely understood, one that is now imprinted in our hearts: In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit. The word hobbit, which he hadnt used before, intrigued the professor into exploring the story and concept in his mind. From an underachieving student, then, came forth the seed that eventually became The Lord of the Rings.
11. The Return Of The King Has The Highest Movie Body Count
The film adaptation of The Return of the King has broken a great many records: it remains to this day a movie tied for most Oscars won by a single movie (eleven) and the first and only fantasy film to ever win Best Picture and Best Director, just to name a few. What many dont know, however, is that The Return of the King also boasts the highest on-screen body count ever depicted in a film. With all of the epic battles we all adore, with Orcs and men being slain left and right, the death toll amounts to exactly 836 depending on whether or not Legolas Mumâk only counts as one. Fun fact: thats about 3 deaths per minute of the extended edition.
Canadian student. Spends probably an unhealthy amount of time enthusing over musicals, unpopular TV shows, and Harry Potter. Main life goal: to become fluent in Elvish.
