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August 26 : 2011

Good news: moving to TheOneRing.net!

Many thanks to those of you who have written to let me know how much you will miss this blog. One such person was Calisuri, one of the co-founders of TheOneRing.net and also one of my interviewees for my Frodo Franchise book. He very kindly asked me to join the staff of TORn! I didn’t need to reflect very long before accepting. The people from TORn that I interviewed were incredibly friendly and helpful, and the whole site supported my book once it was published. It’s great to be able to keep up the friendships I made and maybe to participate in TORn events in the future–and to become a part of a wonderful institution that I came to know so well through writing about its history.

I’ll only be contributing to TORn on an occasional basis. I’ve always felt that the strong point of my blog has been when I can explain aspects of the film industry and help interpret news items–like when the lawsuits were going on and MGM was going through its bankruptcy process. Luckily nothing like that is happening at the moment, with The Hobbit safely into production and progress being made. Still, whenever I feel I can contribute something, I will. And now that I’m working on my book on Tolkien’s novels, maybe I can branch out and contribute occasional pieces about the literary side of things. I also frequent the Message Boards on TORn and occasionally post something, so maybe I’ll see you there!

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The Frodo Franchise
by Kristin Thompson

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
hardcover 978-0-520-24774-1
421 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 12 color illustrations; 36 b/w illustrations; 1 map; 1 table

“Once in a lifetime.”
The phrase comes up over and over from the people who worked on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings. The film’s 17 Oscars, record-setting earnings, huge fan base, and hundreds of ancillary products attest to its importance and to the fact that Rings is far more than a film. Its makers seized a crucial moment in Hollywood—the special effects digital revolution plus the rise of “infotainment” and the Internet—to satisfy the trilogy’s fans while fostering a huge new international audience. The resulting franchise of franchises has earned billions of dollars to date with no end in sight.

Kristin Thompson interviewed 76 people to examine the movie’s scripting and design and the new technologies deployed to produce the films, video games, and DVDs. She demonstrates the impact Rings had on the companies that made it, on the fantasy genre, on New Zealand, and on independent cinema. In fast-paced, compulsively readable prose, she affirms Jackson’s Rings as one the most important films ever made.

cover of Penguin Books’ (NZ) edition of The Frodo Franchise, published September 2007. The tiny subtitle reads: “How ‘The Lord of the Rings’ became a Hollywood blockbuster and put New Zealand on the map.”

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