Tolkien on screen, Pullman on stage

Charles Davis writes: “On December 17, people will queue in their thousands outside cinemas to see The Return of the King, the third part in Peter Jackson’s enormous adaption of J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

And, from this week, the National Theatre is previewing the first part of Nicholas Hytner’s two-part production of His Dark Materials, based on Philip Pullman’s trilogy of children’s books.
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