The 2001 Christmas season saw the spectacular release in the US of the film adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of the fantasy novel trilogy The Lord of the Rings by the late J.R.R. Tolkien, author and professor of literature at Oxford University. The lavish production drew worldwide attention.
2001 年，美國在聖誕節假期推出驚天動地的奇幻電影，首度將英國牛津大學教授托爾金的曠世奇幻小說《魔戒》搬上銀幕，由於製作陣容浩大，引起全球矚目。