Comments on: Why Tolkien Nixed a Beatles Lord of the Rings

By: bill crossland

bill crossland — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:44:59 +0000

Let us not forget the Lampoon’s version, ‘Bored of the Rings’.

By: Bill Brasky

Bill Brasky — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:45:28 +0000

We are the Hobbitses, we are from Shirepool.

By: Chris Stacey

Chris Stacey — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:13:12 +0000

Scouse Hobbits. Didn’t Bill Bailey do a sketch about that?! “Eh up Frodo, we’re off to Mordor…”

By: JDD

JDD — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:04:26 +0000

LOL. Comments should have been closed after Mr. Nickol’s post.

By: Raymond Takashi Swenson

Raymond Takashi Swenson — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:21:09 +0000

The fact that there was the Bakshi movie and it did not prevent the production of the Jackson trilogy demonstrates that the existence of a Beatles version would not have prevented the Jackson trilogy either. Certainly the BBC Radio production did not prevent the Jackson trilogy. A good story can be presented in different ways at different times. How many Jane Austen novels have been produced in multiple TV and movie versions? For Pride and Prejudice, for example, just in the last ten years I have seen the BBC mini-series, the Bollywood version, a modern dress version set in Utah, the very nice Keira Knightly movie, and a fantasy version Lost in Austen in which a modern day woman trades places with Elizabeth Bennet. A musical version by the Beatles would probably had some interesting aspects, and some nice music, and may have been sort of a Monty Python version, like The Life of Brian and The Holy Grail, a bit tongue in cheek.

By: Artaban

Artaban — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:26:44 +0000

“He was probably afraid they’d change the title to Lord of the Ringos.”

LOL!

By: John Farrell

John Farrell — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:57:06 +0000

Thank God for small mercies. A Beatles version of Lord of the Rings would’ve made the 1979 Ralph Bakshi version look like David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia….

By: E.

E. — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:54:03 +0000

I sort of wish it had happened. I’m not saying it would have been faithful to the story or even good, but it would have been very interesting–like the 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park.

By: David Nickol

David Nickol — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:57:23 +0000

He was probably afraid they'd change the title to Lord of the Ringos.