![]() Tolkien’s LOTR stories (which also includes the prelude novel, The Hobbit, published in 1937) are operatic fairy tales set in one of the most elaborately imagined story worlds in all of fiction. LOTR made good and evil feel unambiguous Viggo Mortensen as King Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. By providing audiences escape, comfort, and an unambiguous moral guidepost for negotiating the complicated feelings the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon caused in 2001 and beyond, Jackson’s LOTR became essential to the era. ![]() ![]() And yet, 9/11 actually contributed to the trilogy’s astonishing success - which included winning boatloads of Oscars (unheard of for fantasy films then and now). ![]()
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