A closer look
Peter Jackson filmed the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy simultaneously over the course of four hundred and thirty-eight days in New Zealand, a massive financial gamble by New Line Cinema that could have bankrupted the studio if the first movie bombed, but instead revolutionized blockbuster filmmaking and permanently ruined the local housing market in Wellington, while also ensuring that Elijah Wood spent over a year of his prime youth walking barefoot through jagged rocks and fake snow just to throw a piece of jewelry into a volcano
