name few of his works that became movies?
"The Lord of the Rings"
J. R. R. Tolkien
In 1976, the rights were sold to Tolkien Enterprises, a division of the Saul Zaentz Company, and the first film adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" was released in 1978 as an animated rotoscoping film directed by Ralph Bakshi with screenplay by the fantasy writer Peter S. Beagle.
who got rings in lord of the rings It was found by the hobbit Smeagol, who centuries later lost it in the Misty Mountains. It was in turn found by Bilbo Baggins, who subsequently bequeathed it to his heir Frodo, who took on the quest to destroy it. is the above mentioned part of any book? They are fictional magical artefacts appearing in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. who is he? He was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic. where was he from? Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State.
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J. R. R. Tolkien [SEP] Film adaptations
Beagle. It covered only the first half of the story of "The Lord of the Rings". In 1977, an animated musical television film of "The Hobbit" was made by Rankin-Bass, and in 1980, they produced the animated musical television film "The Return of the King", which covered some of the portions of "The Lord of the Rings" that Bakshi was unable to complete. From 2001 to 2003, New Line Cinema released "The Lord of the Rings" as a trilogy of live-action films that were filmed in New Zealand and directed by Peter Jackson. The series was successful, performing extremely well commercially and winning numerous Oscars.