From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Dan Blum (tool@panix.com) writes:   
   > Erland Sommarskog  wrote:   
   >> Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   >> > ** Game 2, Round 9 - Entertainment - Name the Franchise   
   >> >   
   >> > 3. 7 movies, including "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the   
   >> >    King" ($1,100,000,000 US).   
   >   
   >> I'm surely missing something here, but why would the name be   
   >> anything else than "The Lord of the Rings"?   
   >   
   > Because three of the movies were based on The Hobbit, which is a   
   > different book (I am not sure what the seventh movie is).   
      
   OK. Just goes to shows who clueless I am. I know that there is this   
   big fat book (or books) about some ring that some of my classmates read   
   when I was in secondary school, but I've never read them myself, and I   
   never saw the movies.   
      
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