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The Bearded Women of The Lord of the RingsAt one point in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Gimli talks about how manly the women of his fictional dwarf race are, and Aragorn mentions their beards. You might think that's what the headline is about, but no. It's about the horseback-riding extras that make up the armies in the movies. When The Two Towers was being cast, the production sent out a call for extras, asking for horseback riders and their horses. Those are much easier to handle than extras set on unfamiliar horses. Most of the riders who showed up were women, so they were equipped with helmets and beards to mask their gender as the riders of Rohan.

A First Look at Amazon’s The Lord of the RingsWe've been waiting for months, looking forward to Amazon's new TV series based on JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The project has been kept under wraps pretty well so far, but today we finally get a teaser. It doesn't show much, but it does reveal the name of the series.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Pays Tribute to The Lord of the RingsThe Fellowship of the Ring, the first of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, was released in the United States on December 19, 2001. That means the trilogy is marking its 20th anniversary this month. That movie was followed by The Two Towers and The Return of the King, released in 2002 and 2003. In honor of the occasion, Stephen Colbert (who is one of the world's biggest Lord of the Rings fans) and musical director John Baptiste performed a rap song about the trilogy. And there were surprise cameos.

11 Actors Who Came Close to Starring in The Lord of the RingsWe're coming up on the 20th anniversary of the premiere of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first film of the trilogy The Lord of the Rings. It opened only three months after 9/11 and gave us a reason to escape the news and feel joy again... and made us look forward to the later installments. But The Lord of the Rings had been in development for years, and Peter Jackson's production was a massive effort. Even when the project was greenlighted, casting all those roles presented a problem: any actor who took a role in The Fellowship of the Ring had to commit to an 18-month shooting schedule in New Zealand, and most would also have to commit to appearing in the The Two Towers and The Return of the King, which would all have a similar shooting schedule. Add in the fact that the actor who was cast for the role of Aragorn was fired just before shooting began and you can imagine what the casting director was going through.Read about eleven actors who wanted a role in The Lord of the Rings and didn't get it, or else were offered a role and decided not to take it, at Mental Floss. Then imagine what a different trilogy it could have been.#TheLordoftheRings #TheFellowshipoftheRing #moviecasting 