The official inside story on the making of the award-winning movie trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy is a lavishly illustrated, definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the creation of an epic film experience. Hailed by critics worldwide, part one of the movie trilogy was a box-office smash, one of the most successful films of the decade. Peter Jackson's "fierce, imaginative movie takes high-flying risks and inspires with its power and scale", wrote Newsweek. "In every way this is moviemaking on a grand scale", wrote the San Francisco Chronicle, while Time lauded the "grandeur, moral heft and emotional depth" of the film, which received 13 Academy Award nominations.

Including more than 300 photographs from all three films (most of them unique to this book) and exclusive interviews with all the cast and crew, Brian Sibley's fascinating book takes every fan inside the process of adapting JRR Tolkien's masterwork for the screen. For the first time ever, three major movies were made at the same time, a triumphant and monumental undertaking that took the world by storm. Here can be found details about the hundreds of dedicated artists, craftspeople and cast and crew members who laboured for years to bring one of the greatest stories ever told to an eager film audience.

Sibley takes us inside the process of filmmaking to show us how the magic is made--from the director, writers and actors to wardrobe, make-up, miniatures, music and digital special effects, it's all here. Director Peter Jackson said: "It was tiring, physically and mentally, but never dull. Three movies, one big story and so much variety: one day shooting scenes of intimate heart-wrenching drama, the next vast battle scenes involving hundreds of extras. Every day brought an opportunity to create something new on the enormous canvas that is The Lord of the Rings."