16-year-old Hannah Barlow, from Logan in Ohio, has produced her own 12-minutes adaptation of “In the House of Tom Bombadil”, a chapter which is notoriously absent from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
The cast and crew spent three days filming the the chapter, whilst Barlow has spent four years working on the project. John Cummin, who played Merry, spoke of the perils of playing a hobbit in such weather: “It was so cold we had to put our feet by the fire after each set”. Barlow herself said:
This was such an amazing experience and a dream come true […] This is really exciting and such an honor. I can’t believe it has that many hits already […] You can scan so many things with the advanced technology we have today
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