Huge Tolkien fan that I am, I will always be extremely glad that, when the book came to be adapted for cinema, it was done as faithfully and reverently as possible by Peter Jackson. His three-film masterpiece still stands at the pinnacle of popular mainstream cinema. If you want a glimpse of how screwed up it could have been, just check this out. It’s slightly long and is just a summary of an unmade screenplay, but from the sound of it, John Boorman’s unmade 1970 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings would have been utterly catastrophic. I just wanted to flag it up here A) because it’s so amusingly psychodelic, and B) because it would have been so awful, naked dancing elves, Frodo shagging Galadriel and all.

If you’re interested, the script itself can be read here.