The Lord of the Rings Ring" and part of "The Two Towers". A three-issue comic book version of the movie was also published in Europe (but not printed in English), with illustrations by Luis Bermejo. When Bakshi's investors shied away of financing the second film that would complete the story, the remainder of the story was covered in an animated television special by Rankin-Bass. Stylistically, the two segments are very different. The second and more commercially successful adaptation was Peter Jackson's live action "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy, produced by New Line Cinema and released in three instalments as "" (2001), "" (2002),
Translations of The Lord of the Rings and slightly edited Tolkien's typescript, and re-published it under the title of Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings in their book "". Tolkien uses the abbreviations "CS" for "Common Speech, in original text represented by English", and "LT" for the target language of the translation. His approach is the prescription that if in doubt, a proper name should not be altered but left as it appears in the English original: The names in English form, such as "Dead Marshes", should be translated straightforwardly, while the names in Elvish should be left unchanged. The difficult cases are those names where