20 Things You Didn't Know About The Lord Of The Rings
10. Lord Of The Rings By Stanley Kubrick Featuring The Beatles?
No matter how you feel about his adaptations, it speaks to Peter Jacksons passion and dedication to the occasionally overwhelming source material to create the trilogy of films especially considering even the great Stanley Kubrick dubbed The Lord of the Rings as immense and unfilmable. The reason Kubrick made this call was because of The Beatles, who, at the time, approached Kubrick to adapt The Lord of the Rings, starring them. John Lennon, apparently, was the one who was pushing the project back in the 60s, and he wanted to play strangely enough Gollum. The rest of the cast would be rounded out by Paul as Frodo, Ringo as Sam, and George as Gandalf. While Tolkien was interested in a film adaptation, as he was concerned about royalties (which, it turns out, he neednt have been), he essentially killed the project because he wasnt keen on the Beatles to star in it. Today, picturing a Gollum played by John Lennon is utterly bizarre, but we shouldnt be so quick to thank the professor for his good judgment: Stanley Kubrick, the Fab Four, and Tolkien it wouldve made one hell of a movie, for better or for worse.
9. Sauron Didnt Forge The Three Elven Rings Of Power
Technically speaking, Sauron didnt exactly forge any of the Rings of Power except for the One in the fires of Mount Doom. Sometime in the Second Age, Sauron approached the Elven smiths of Eregion, headed by Celebrimbor, and taught them how to forge magic rings. The Elves attempted with many lesser rings, but eventually, Celebrimbor and the smiths forged the Seven given to Dwarf-lords and the Nine for mortal men with the help of Sauron. Now, the Three of the Elves are a different story: called Narya (Ring of Fire), Nenya (Ring of Water), and Vilya (Ring of Air), the rings were hidden from Sauron and were forged in secret by Celebrimbor, untouched by the Dark Lord. This is why the Three dont fall under the sway of the One, nor are their bearers who have included Gil-galad, Elrond, Galadriel, and Gandalf corrupted by Sauron. Thus, after Sauron lost the One, the Three were used for the preservation of the realms of the Elves: Lothlorien, Rivendell and Lindon.
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Technically speaking, Sauron didnt exactly forge any of the Rings of Power except for the One in the fires of Mount Doom. Sometime in the Second Age, Sauron approached the Elven smiths of Eregion, headed by Celebrimbor, and taught them how to forge magic rings. The Elves attempted with many lesser rings, but eventually, Celebrimbor and the smiths forged the Seven given to Dwarf-lords and the Nine for mortal men with the help of Sauron. Now, the Three of the Elves are a different story: called Narya (Ring of Fire), Nenya (Ring of Water), and Vilya (Ring of Air), the rings were hidden from Sauron and were forged in secret by Celebrimbor, untouched by the Dark Lord. This is why the Three dont fall under the sway of the One, nor are their bearers who have included Gil-galad, Elrond, Galadriel, and Gandalf corrupted by Sauron. Thus, after Sauron lost the One, the Three were used for the preservation of the realms of the Elves: Lothlorien, Rivendell and Lindon.