SMC Pod #112: J.R.R. Tolkien’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS & Peter Jackson’s epic adaptation

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Daniel Ott, and Craig Hammill) is joined by writer/producer Eileen Shim to gush over Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendary high fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings. A long discussion ensues about all three films – The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King – and what the trilogy means to the team. The conversation is so big it even spills over into usually off-topic segments! Craig is in awe of the Helm’s Deep sequence and Jackson’s grit. Daniel views the Appendices behind-the-scenes documentaries as a “filmmaking Bible.” Eileen and Connor weigh the merits of The Hobbit films. Edwin is absent for dubious reasons.