Join your host Garhdo as they take you on a journey There and Back Again looking at the making of the Lord of the Rings trilogy in celebration of its 20th anniversary. Garhdo has thoroughly watched all of the Appendices for the Extended Cut of the films, and is here to share with you the fascinating story of how this film series was made, as they celebrate this cinematic masterpiece that helped to change how films have been made since.

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:59 J.R.R. Tolkein and the Lord of The Rings
• 41:37 Adapting the Novel
• 1:04:24 Creating Middle-Earth
• 1:37:38 Filming the Trilogy
• 2:36:05 Gollum
• 2:49:26 The Road Goes Ever On…
• 3:14:22 Outro
• 3:19:20 Sign-Off

Season 2, Episode 11

December 5th 2021

Noticing that we were 20 years after the release of Lord of the Rings, I decided to explore how this once in a generation film experience was made. It was absolutely fascinating to explore the effort and attention to detail that was put into bringing Tolkien’s Middle-Earth to the screen, and some of the facts I discovered still blow my mind.

This bought Season Two to a close, but by this point I was hard at work on developing Season 3, and expanding the podcast to new avenues.