Word: hobbitized
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...film will test children's bladders but not their patience. Like the best fables, it creates a world where the young (and old) can lose themselves and, in identifying with the little Hobbit that could, find their better selves...
When he began the job of bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's much loved trilogy to the screen, New Zealand director Jackson may have felt like Frodo Baggins, the lowly Hobbit who assumes the task of taking the Ring of Power on a trek to save Middle Earth. But Jackson proves he is up to it. This first episode shows him well on his way to creating a film epic that nearly matches its source. Fellowship is not simply a sumptuous illustration of a favorite fable; though faithful in every detail to Tolkien, it has a vigorous life of its own--grandeur...
...million Copies of The Hobbit sold this year--the most since its 1937 publication--in advance of the film opening this week of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first in Tolkien's 1950s Lord of the Rings trilogy...
...Copies sold last year of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy classic The Hobbit...
...That hobbit from Northeastern...