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TIL The Beatles approached Stanley Kubrick to direct a LOTR movie starring themselves. Tolkien killed the project as a result of his hate for The Beatles. A hate developed after moving 3 doors down from The Beatles in 1964, who irked him with the “indescribable” noise from their practice sessions.

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the man who spents hundreds of pages describing trees and meals and worked out the linguistics of multiple fictional languages and the entire cosmology of his fictionsl world called the Beatles’ rehearsal sounds “indescribable”

You lost me at “Lord of the Rings starring The Beatles”

a window into the not so distant world where lord of the rings is a classic of hippie stoner counterculture

I honestly can’t tell if that last post is a joke.

According to Peter Jackson, Paul wanted to play Frodo, Ringo wanted to play Sam, George wanted to play Gandalf, and… John wanted to play Gollum.

This was a real thing that people wanted to actually happen. And by “people”, I think that mostly meant John Lennon and no one else.