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...potatoes, unable to conjure up anything more adventurous than an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. This argument intensifies as the holiday movie season kicks into full gear with the Dec. 19 release of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first film in a $300 million trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy cycle...
Rowling's first inspiration was to plop modern, realistically drawn kids into a magical, medieval setting. Her next was to make Harry a naive hero, plucked from ignominious obscurity--the spidery cupboard under his awful relatives' stairs--and challenged to greatness. The result, a witches' brew of Tolkien and Tom Brown's School Days, was so vividly written that it was, in effect, already its own movie. It gave readers the narrative equivalent of the best seat in the house and free popcorn to boot...
...real world--who needs it? Not the movies, not this season, when the true realm of the fantastic beckons so seductively. Great anticipations hover over two projects that bring to the screen the most cherished franchises of fantasy novels in the past half-century: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Directors Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which opens Nov. 16) and Peter Jackson (The Fellowship of the Ring, due Dec. 19) have been on a sacred, scary quest. Each director must feel like...
...DIED. TOVE JANSSON, 86, the creator of Finland's beloved Moomin trolls; in Helsinki. Jansson wrote and illustrated the original Moomin books, whose tales of the eccentric, hippo-like creatures spawned comic strips, cartoon series and even theme parks. She is also celebrated for her illustrations in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and in an edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. DIED. JOAN SIMS, 71, the British queen of the double entendre; in London. Best remembered for the bawdy, farcical Carry On series of comedy films, she also had a successful stage and TV career. DIED...
...Newbery Silver Medal and four separate Children's Book of the Year awards. More than three million copies of her books are in print, and they include children's stories, poetry collections, and even a guide to writing that analyzes authors like Mark Twain, Jane Austen, J. R. R. Tolkien, and her favorite, Virginia Woolf...