In January of the following year, The Fellowship of the Ring opened in Taiwan. Riding the wave of that sensational opening, Linking Publishing Company's Chinese version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King) sold 600,000 copies.
隔年一月，《魔戒首部曲》在台上映，同樣引起極大的轟動與熱潮，由聯經新出版的《魔戒三部曲》在這股熱潮推波助瀾下，銷售竟高達 60 萬冊。