Not much magic will remain in the "The Lord of the Rings" filmsfor readers of a new coffee-table-sized chronicle of the backstagedoings during the 18-month-long concurrent filming of all three booksin the Tolkien trilogy.
The 192 pages of The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the MovieTrilogy, by Brian Sibley (Houghton Mifflin, $29.95) are crammed withhomely and instructive photos of make-up artists creating orcs, model-makers building cities and towers and artisans of all sorts craftingrobes, rings and weapons for elves, dwarves and men. The details arefascinating if one overlooks the gee-whiz text, but it's difficult tomaintain a sense of wonder about …
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