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The Beatles Tried to Make a 'Lord of The Rings' Movie But J.R.R. Tolkien Turned Them Down
Insider ^ | Nov 25, 2021 | Zac Ntim

Posted on 11/26/2021 1:12:08 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 11/26/2021 1:12:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Good!
Glad it didn’t happen

Tolkien’s masterpiece was brilliantly produced by Jackson!


2 posted on 11/26/2021 1:17:48 PM PST by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do t)
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To: nickcarraway

I imagine Pipe Weed would have had a central role.


3 posted on 11/26/2021 1:24:11 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Alec Baldwin has killed more people than the Jan 6 protesters. And he will serve less jail time.)
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The Beatles Tried to Make a ‘Lord of The Rings’ Movie But J.R.R. Tolkien Turned Them Down>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Thereby proving that Tolkein regarded h9is work as more than fantasy. They combine the Nordic myths upon which Western civilzation is established.

We even have Trolls on Free Republic.


4 posted on 11/26/2021 1:24:17 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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I loved their music, but not their movies. I think it would have been a disaster.


5 posted on 11/26/2021 1:27:20 PM PST by KittyKares (Trump put us in the room; now we have to put ourselves in the room. - Steve Bannon)
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LotR couldn’t be done (properly) until CGI came along...


6 posted on 11/26/2021 1:33:54 PM PST by jeffc (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: nickcarraway

Ringo Star Voice: “Oh, my precious. Oh, my precious, mate.”


7 posted on 11/26/2021 1:34:23 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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He probably didn’t want Hobbits traveling around Middle Earth in a yellow submarine.


8 posted on 11/26/2021 1:35:26 PM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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Ringo doesn’t remember much,” Jackson said.

I doubt that Ringo remembers much of anything.


9 posted on 11/26/2021 1:35:29 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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A friend sent me his new movie on the Beatles and I watched about 4 minutes of it before I turned it off.

It starts out showing early Beatle clips and he showed one I’ve seen before where John Lennon looks into the camera and make this “spaz face” only Jackson cut it. Why? Because last year the left went on this campaign claiming Lennon was mocking disabled people with those faces he makes. So of course Jackson had to bend over, spread his cheeks to the left and cut it. So that was it for me, BYE.

Screw these guys, if you do not have the gonads to stand up to the left and their insane tyrannical BS, then to hell with you pal. Something so incredibly ridiculous as that, a guy who has been dead 41 years and you are censoring the dude over making a freakin’ face? I’m sick of that group anyway, most overplayed music in the history of mankind.


10 posted on 11/26/2021 1:35:50 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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the cast would have been composed of Paul McCartney as Frodo, John Lennon as Gollum, George Harrison as Gandalf, and Ringo Starr as Sam.

It’s like “Yellow Submarine” meets Middle Earth.


11 posted on 11/26/2021 1:41:46 PM PST by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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I could see Yoko as Gollum.


12 posted on 11/26/2021 2:04:29 PM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: nickcarraway

Common sense prevailed back in those days.


13 posted on 11/26/2021 2:05:42 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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What caused the Beatles to break up was the confiscatory British tax rate.

They tried to escape it with business ventures, but they weren’t businessmen.

They were looking for a place to invest their money, and this was evidently one of the things they looked into.


14 posted on 11/26/2021 2:09:01 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ringo actually is part hobbit...


15 posted on 11/26/2021 2:15:58 PM PST by bigbob (i)
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To: Guenevere

Absolutely! Never get tired of watching it over and over and I love the hobbit as well.


16 posted on 11/26/2021 2:18:24 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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jrr should have just given it to led zep.


17 posted on 11/26/2021 2:41:50 PM PST by SteveH (.)
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To: Candor7

JRR Tolkien was a devoted Christian. He and CS Lewis spent hours together at Oxford discussing Christianity. The trilogy reflects the high morality and world view of the Christian faith.


18 posted on 11/26/2021 2:45:41 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is what you get when you put criminals in charge.)
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To: nickcarraway

We were spared a lot of misery then.


19 posted on 11/26/2021 2:46:21 PM PST by Bullish (I'm only half kidding)
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To: Salamander; mylife

It would have gone nowhere, man.


20 posted on 11/26/2021 2:48:59 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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