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1 out of every 160 New Zealanders was part of the production of The Lord of the Rings films.
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J.R.R. Tolkien orginally set out to just create a language. Elfish. He then figured that that language needed a history. That history needed a world etc. Which eventually led to him writing LOTR in said world.
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