The Beatles pose for a photo in Sweden

Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is nearly perfect, and it’s impossible to imagine anyone doing it better. However, The Beatles were fans of J. R. R. Tolkien’s work and wanted to star in a film adaptation. The plans ultimately fell through when director Stanley Kubrick turned it down, and Tolkien refused to allow The Beatles to make it. 

The Beatles wanted to play Hobbits in a ‘Lord of the Rings’ adaptation

The Beatles pose for a photo in Sweden
The Beatles (George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and Ringo Starr) | Keystone/Getty Images

The Beatles succeeded on the big screen with A Hard Day’s Night and Help!. However, Lord of the Rings would have been a completely different task that required skilled acting and hardcore determination. The Beatles read the novels in the late 1960s and became entranced by Middle Earth. 

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