| Release Date: | Jan 2001 |
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| Genre: | Documentary |
| Runtime: | 60 min |
| Cast: | Phil Crowley (Narrator) John Howe (Himself / Conceptual Designer of LOTR) Peter McHugh (Additional Voices) Oliver Muirhead (Additional Voices) Alan Lee (Himself / Conceptual Designer of LOTR) Billy Boyd (Peregrin 'Pippin' Took) Dominic Monaghan (Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandybuck) Sean Astin (Samwise 'Sam' Gamgee) Christopher Lee (Saruman the White) John Garth (Himself / Tolkien Historian) Martin Carver (Himself - Archeologist (as Martin...) Richard Taylor (Himself - Director: Weta Workshop) Orlando Bloom (Himself) Cate Blanchett (Galadriel, Lady of the Galadhrim) Pekka Huttu-Hiltunen (Himself - Music Instructor) Jussi Huovinen (Himself - Finnish Rune Singer) Wade Davis (Himself - Anthropologist: National...) Markku Nieminen (Himself - Dir. of Kalevala Institute,...) Tom Shippey (Himself - Tolkien Scholar (as Tom...) Liv Tyler (Herself) Rayner Unwin (Himself - Tolkien Publisher) Jane Chance (Herself - Professor: Rice University...) Philippa Boyens (Herself - Co-Screenwriter LOTR) |
A documentary about the influences on Tolkien, covering in brief his childhood and how he detested the onslaught of industry through the idyllic countryside, moving on to describe his fighting experience from WWI, and closing with a look at the Finnish inspiration for the scholar's self-invented languages of Elfish. In between are interviews with the cast of the films and some clips, by far the most from "The Fellowship of the Ring", but a few glimpses of Rohan riders (from "The Two Towers") are provided. Also, there are interviews with a range of the filmmakers.
