The Hunt for Gollum
I just found out last weekend that another Lord of the Rings film is being made this year. My first impression was not of a particularly glad nature; the story had been completed 23 years ago, and I hold it as one of the greatest movie series ever produced. However, I needed to take a closer look into what this movie was truly going to be about before prematurely labeling it an abomination. The movie, titled The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, follows Aragorn's search for Gollum, which takes place before The Fellowship of the Ring. Not many details about this hunt are given in Tolkien's novels, so in order to make this into a full-length feature there would need to be some considerable measure of imagination involved. This doesn't need to be a bad thing, provided that the directors stay true to the original Lord of the Rings story. Few things are more annoying than changes in character or stories that do not reflect the prior story's char...
