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The Hunt for Gollum is a 2009 British fantasy fan film based on the appendices of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954–55 book The Lord of the Rings. [1] [2] [3] The film is set in Middle-earth, when the wizard Gandalf the Grey fears that Gollum may reveal information about the One Ring to Sauron.
Gollum was voiced and performed by Andy Serkis in Peter Jackson's live-action version of The Lord of the Rings, using motion capture. [36] In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Gollum is a CGI character voiced and performed by the actor Andy Serkis. He is smaller than Frodo or Sam, but has considerable strength and agility.
From 2000, fans were posting poems, stories and humorous pieces to the FanFiction.net website. [24] [25] Growth was greatly accelerated by the appearance in 2001–2003 of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. [24] Soon after Jackson's films came out, mailing lists started to be replaced by specialised archives.
The Lord of the Rings is an epic [1] high fantasy novel [a] written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in Middle-earth , the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book The Hobbit but eventually developed into a much larger work.
Foster attributes the surge of Tolkien fandom in the United States of the mid-1960s to a combination of the hippie subculture and anti-war movement pursuing "mellow freedom like that of the Shire" and "America's cultural Anglophilia" of the time, fuelled by a bootleg paperback version of The Lord of the Rings published by Ace Books followed up by an authorised edition by Ballantine Books. [8]
Middle-earth is known to fans both through Tolkien's writings and through other media, notably Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series. In a celebrated scene, Jackson's 2002 film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers depicts Gollum/Sméagol talking to himself, using the device of shot/reverse shot to switch between the two personalities.
Andrew Clement Serkis [1] [2] (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his motion capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for computer-generated characters such as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in the Planet ...
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