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Egyptian Fans Celebrate 20 Years of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings

December 20, 2021
Merry, Pippin, Sam, and Frodo. A still from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

When the first installment of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy was released on December 19, 2001, I was eight years old. At the time, I was far too busy with Harry Potter to care. In fact, even for years after that, my only memories of it were an uneasy feeling whenever Gollum appeared on screen and a hazy image of trees marching into battle in one of the games my brother had on his PlayStation 2. This all changed when, one afternoon when I was 20, my brother took the executive decision to sit me down and make me watch The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Since then, I have devoured the trilogy written by J. R. R. Tolkien, as well as The Hobbit, the children’s tale that set the scene for the iconic story, and can no longer bear the idea of watching the approximately 3-hour theatrical editions of the Peter Jackson films, always opting instead for the approximately 4-hour extended editions. The Lord of the Rings has undoubtedly stood the test of time. A timeless tale of good and evil, friendship,…


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