AUX ORIGINES DU SEIGNEUR DES ANNEAUX - DE TOLKIEN À JACKSON

Between 2001 and 2003, the three supposedly unadaptable volumes of The Lord of the Rings, written almost fifty years earlier by J. R. R. Tolkien, were transformed into a trilogy of films on a scale unrivalled in the world of cinema. Between Tolkien's irreplaceable words and Peter Jackson's crazy images, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King have twice made their mark on the history of fantasy and continue to arouse the greatest passion for stories from Middle-earth.

From the trenches of the Somme to the plateaux of Stone Street in Wellington, via the classrooms of Oxford and Birmingham, the legendary recording studios of Abbey Road and the hills of Matamata in New Zealand, specialist journalist Vivien Lejeune traces the history of the work and its creators over the decades, to better understand its origins and the full extent of its contemporary impact.