Ringers: Lord of the Fans

00:01:02 The world has changed.

00:05:25 One year later, it was published in America.

00:09:03 No fiction I've read in the last five years has given me more joy.

00:12:52 What I find most enticing about The Lord of the Rings...

00:16:28 Yes? Oh good, good. Tell me what you're talking about.

00:21:14 There he is, living down in Oxford...

00:25:14 They were the ultimate badges of hippie identity.

00:29:09 The great shepherds of the trees.

00:33:26 which is a classic sort of reference to Lord of the Rings.

00:37:44 and I think they just got tired of ranching...

00:42:25 and popularised by Walt Disney in the '30s.

00:46:19 "I've been away for a while and now I'm back.

00:50:37 I'd always wanted to make a fantasy film, as a lover of fantasy movies...

00:54:47 because I never really went online to look at it.

00:58:06 Day 35.

01:01:26 they realised they needed to really respect the book...

01:07:58 I think it's a great icon. It's a great logo.

01:11:50 It's something that's almost in your subconscious, these stories.

01:15:31 It's an awesome movie. You are going to be blown away by it.

01:19:57 and just cast his mind to these incredible vistas...

01:23:47 Why do you like Frodo so much, Elijah Wood?

01:27:07 have parents who probably read the books in the '60s.

01:31:04 and there is a real feeling of fellowship about it that just blows me away.

25:00:00 and you get out of the car...