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A comment on W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring. Parent comment

Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by hinkley on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:19PM (#37195427)
Peter Jackson got NLC to give him HALF A BILLION DOLLARS to film the second and third movies back to back. That was an amazing feat.

Cameron has now surpassed that number, almost twenty years later. But for the time that was crazy.

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Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by aikinai on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:42PM (#37195558)
He filmed all three together, not the second two. That makes it even more insane, especially at the time when no one had done this and fantasy movies were far out of vogue.
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