10 Worst Changes the Lord of the Rings Movies Made to the Books
'The Lord of the Rings' has received praise for its faithfulness to its source material, but Jackson and his team did take some creative liberties.
It all started with The Hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote this fantastical children's story as a stand-alone book. In it, the story's unassuming hero, Bilbo Baggins, finds a magical ring. This ring was only meant to be a plot device, a way for Bilbo to escape a dangerous situation. But all that changed when Tolkien's publisher requested a sequel following The Hobbit's tremendous success. Rather than make a direct sequel, the author took a different route. Tolkien expanded upon that scarcely mentioned ring to create a trilogy of adult books known as The Lord of the Rings.
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