LOTR TO BE MUSICAL

SkyNews ^ | March 14, 2004

[billorites]

Fresh from its runaway success at the Oscars, fantasy epic Lord of the Rings is set to hit the stage as a lavish musical, reports say.

Producers are planning to turn the book series into the most expensive musical ever seen in London, according to the Sunday Telegraph.

News of the musical version comes weeks after the final film installment of the trilogy, Return Of The King, won 11 Academy Awards.

The £8m production will see dozens of actors portray hobbits, elves, wizards and orcs in complex battle scenes.

"I have been in theatre for 25 years and I know the power of theatre in telling epic stories," said co-producer Kevin Wallace, a former collaborator of successful stage composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

"I believe that we will be able to make a version of The Lord of the Rings that will be a brilliant piece," he told the newspaper.

The show, to open next year, would last a mammoth three and a half hours, Wallace said.

"If Shakespeare can put all England on stage in Henry IV, I am confident that we can put on the whole of Middle Earth and tell the story of the entire trilogy over that time," he said.

The three books in the Lord of the Rings series, chronicling the struggle between good and evil in Middle Earth, were written by

British author JRR Tolkien from 1954-55 and have proved enduringly popular ever since.

[tiamat]

LOL!

"Toes. I love hairy toes....."

Hey, Charles.

Ever read "Bored of the Rings"?

It was put out in the early 80s by National Lampoon.....

[tiamat]

OMG!

thanks.

I think.

[King Prout]

"Ai! Ai! A Ballhog!"

[Fedora]

There's a bright golden ring on my finger

There's a bright golden ring on my finger

The ents are as high

as an oliphaunt's eye

and Caradhras is climbing clear up to the sky

Oh what a beautiful morning. . .

[JenB]

Now that's pretty good!

I'm gonna wash that Dwarf right outta my hair....

[Overtaxed]

Gollum's Song

My mama done tol' me
When I was in kneepants
My mama done tol' me, Son!
A hobbit'll sweet talk
And give ya the big eye
But when the sweet talkin's done
A hobbit's a two-face
A worrisome thing who'll leave ya t' sing the blues in the night

[Fedora]

I'm gonna wash that Dwarf right outta my hair....

LOL! Excellent :)

ORRR-odruin

Where the smoke comes whipping down the plain. . .

[Fedora]

Gollum's Song

LOL! Very nice :)

Men and elves and dwarves better scurry

When the orcs ride forth in a flurry. . .

[JenB]

Oh we got trouble
Right here in Hobbit city
Trouble starts with a T and that rhymes with G
And that stands for Gollum...

[Overtaxed]

Gimli:

Anything you can do I can do better.
I can do anything better than you.

[Fedora]

The rain in Arthedain

falls mainly on the Dunedain

[Fedora]

Legolas:

Any axe you can swing, I can swing higher
I can swing any axe higher than you

[Overtaxed]

Legolas:

Anything you can wear
I can wear better.
In what you wear
I'd look better than you.

[RosieCotton]

You guys are scaring me.

This idea sounds like a disaster in the making.

[Overtaxed]

Eowyn:

I'm quick on the trigger with targets not much bigger than a pinpoint
I'm number one, but my score with a feller
Is lower than a celler, oh you can't get a man with a gun.

[Fedora]

Toreth Ungol! Toreth Ungol!

I love ya, Toreth Ungol!

You're always a day away. . .

[RosieCotton]

From the Bakshi version...(NOT the real Sam and Frodo!!!)

Sweetheart, they're suspecting things
People will say we're in love...

[JenB]

Don't go to Mordor in the rain with me
People will say we're in love...

Or:
Brush up your Tolkien!
Start quoting him now!
Brush up your Elvish
And the geeks you will wow....

[RosieCotton]

Now that, I really like.

The original is pretty funny, too. Love that musical.

[rosyposy]

weeeeere... OFF to see the wizard!

i actually saw something about this on Fox (the G block) a few months ago. oh my. it just wont be the same, y'know? none of those broadway types could ever be as hot as orli!!!