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‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Hunt For Gollum’: Everything We Know So Far

There will be more of Middle Earth to explore, particularly through the lens of Gollum's perspective.

Andy Serkis ‘ Gollum, who was once a hobbit known as Sméagol, catalyzed the plot after he killed his friend, who found Sauron’s all-powerful ring in a lake and succumbed to the instrument’s corruption. Gollum unintentionally saved the world when he bit the ring off of Frodo’s invisible finger on Mount Doom in “The Return of the King.” His excitement hat having achieved this feat caused him to lose balance and fall into the fiery explosion there, taking the weapon — and Sauron’s consuming power — with him. Walsh and Boyens will write the screenplay along with Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou (who scripted the upcoming animated film Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim about the origins of Helm’s Deep).

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