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⚔ What If…Lord of the Rings had been an “Event” Comic?

—Kelson Vibber, 2011-06-26

A local movie theater has been running special screenings of the extended-edition Lord of the Rings trilogy over the last few weeks (almost certainly in connection with this week’s Blu-Ray release). I just watched Green Lantern, another movie in which a ring figures prominently, at the same theater. And of course we’re knee-deep in Flashpoint. The stories collided in a mental three-car pile-up during an afternoon running errands, and I started thinking: What would The Lord of the Rings have been like as a modern “event” comic book like Final Crisis or Blackest Night?

And then there are all the alternate-universe stories that would show up several years down the line, set in a world in which they failed to destroy the ring.

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