![]() So, without a better place to post it, Polygon has allowed one anonymous user to publish their AITA here on the site. ![]() The popular subreddit “Am I the Asshole?” is, as mods put it, “a catharsis for the frustrated moral philosopher in all of us, and a place to finally find out if you were wrong in an argument that’s been bothering you.” Unfortunately, the community strictly bans any posts involving walking out on loved ones. AITA for ghosting my adopted cousin and our entire town? Image: New Line Cinema The story’s thousands of pages endured in the minds of readers for half a century before Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh’s painstakingly adapted smash-hit film trilogy brought it to moviegoers. He lived to see the Great Depression and a second devastating global war before he put the final touches on The Lord of the Rings, a sword and sorcery epic where hard-fought victories turn on the smallest choices. He was an orphan married to another orphan, father to an infant son born in, as he would write in 1941, “the starvation-year of 1917 when the end of the war seemed as far off as it does now.” In the plague year of 1918, the author was 26, with a recurring illness keeping him in and out of the exact place the virus was at its hottest: army hospitals. It is a quirk of history that we didn’t lose J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings faithfully adapted Tolkien’s unrelenting belief in hope Image: New Line Cinema Below, find the near-complete journey (and watch out for two more stories at the end of December). There are behind-the-scene stories, critical reconsiderations, and answers to questions that have continued to burn like Sauron’s eye for the last two decades. Spearheaded by Polygon’s resident Tolkien expert Susana Polo, “ Year of the Ring” is a collection of stories meant to enhance the viewing experience - even more so than the Extended Edition special features. Instead, we set out to tell a story a week, sizing up the fantasy triptych from every angle. ![]() There’s no one way to talk about The Lord of the Rings movies, and in celebrating The Fellowship of the Ring’s anniversary, the Polygon staff dared not try. With so much that could have gone wrong, so much about the films went right, making them perfect subject for a year-long deep dive. Tolkien’s sprawling work by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, has held the attention of our collective cultural consciousness. And over the last 20 years, the trilogy, adapted from J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring debuted around the world on Dec.
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