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TIL The Beatles approached Stanley Kubrick to direct a LOTR movie starring themselves. Tolkien killed the project as a result of his hate for The Beatles. A hate developed after moving 3 doors down from The Beatles in 1964, who irked him with the “indescribable” noise from their practice sessions.

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the man who spents hundreds of pages describing trees and meals and worked out the linguistics of multiple fictional languages and the entire cosmology of his fictionsl world called the Beatles’ rehearsal sounds “indescribable”

You lost me at “Lord of the Rings starring The Beatles”

a window into the not so distant world where lord of the rings is a classic of hippie stoner counterculture

I honestly can’t tell if that last post is a joke.

Truly we are living the worst timeline, as this gem was never made.

Though my partner pointed out that even if Tolkien hadn’t killed the project, the Beatles probably wouldn’t have been willing to endure Kubrick’s perfectionism.