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Old 10-26-2005, 05:33 PM   #1
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the beatles in lotr 1960s movie

John Lennon as Gollum,Paul McCartney as Frodo,George Harrison as Gandalf, and Ringo Starr as Sam Beatles plan fell flat when author J.R.R. Tolkien rejected the plan.anyone else heard of this? Paul McCartney told Peter Jackson about the plans at the 2002 Academy Awards in Hollywood.
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Old 10-26-2005, 10:30 PM   #2
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Oh yeah, they talked about that on either an LOTR EE or an LOTR special sometime...was it really serious? It seems so funny...
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So... rejection can be a GOOD thing then!
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So... rejection can be a GOOD thing then!
Very Much So, could you imagine it? all the characters in LOTR would be Liverpudlian
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that would've crashed and burned...
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Old 12-31-2005, 10:35 PM   #6
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Some great renditions of some of the songs though...
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Credits song for FOTR: "Let it Be"
Enya would be shocked.
How would it go...?
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that would've crashed and burned...
it probally would have been huge hit because of Beatlemania
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