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January 24, 2001

The Lord of the Rings Indepth
Staff Reporter

The first trailer for the Lord of the Rings is now playing in New Zealand cinemas.

It advertises the coming film trilogy that's still a whole year away.

The trailer runs less than two minutes.. but it's still just enough to provide Ring junkies with their regular fix.

Today's trailer provides just a quick glimpse, but it's obviously one cool movie.

For most it was enough to ensure they'll be back for the full version in December.

"I'd like to go and see it having read the book as a kid, yeah it was great."

"Yeah it was good, makes me wanna go see it."

Previous tidbits have appeared on the web, promoting the Peter Jackson directed $675 million dollars trilogy.

So it's not surprising the amount of hype the projects received.. although just a trailer there was a big ad... More