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LOTR The Musical!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the greatest-hobbit-of-them-all dept.

Blue Stone writes "The Lord of The Rings, is to become a musical, to be staged in London's West End, in 2005, on the book's 50th anniversary. The £8m (US$12m) production has lyrics by Shaun McKenna and music by Stephen Keeling and Bernd Stromberger, while Matthew Warchus will direct." If they can get Leonard Nimoy to sing the Bilbo Baggins song on stage, I'd go ;)

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  1. It's not so crazy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a lot of people seem to be missing is the fact that the original books were very musical to begin with. There's scores of songs in there.

    At Slashdot, I would've expected more people to know the books, rather than just the movies.