Fingolfin’s Findings LXXI: One of the weirdest adaptations is ‘hiding’ at Lilly Library - John Boorman’s “Lord of the Rings”

For those of you who take a more serious interest in film and television adaptations of Tolkien’s writings the name John Boorman is not much of a mystery.

It is well-known that Boorman tried to film The Lord of the Rings (Opens in a new window) but failed.

For very good reasons.

Thanks to Eru that we did not have to drain that cup of sorrow to the dregs. 😅

Why? Read for yourself, if you like (Opens in a new window).

And be aware that parts of the manuscript were later used to do Excalibur (Opens in a new window).

Directed by a man responsible for Zardoz (Opens in a new window).

Yes, that is Sean Connery in Zardoz.

If you don’t believe me and do speak a bit of German - I did FOUR episodes (Opens in a new window) on this abomination with my podcast SmallTolk. To even attempt to describe that level of insanity took us more than four hours in total.

Anyway, let’s dive in!

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