{"id":1872648,"date":"2026-04-08T19:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1872648"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:18:31","slug":"brandon-sanderson-ranks-the-lord-of-the-rings-as-the-best-movie-trilogy-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1872648","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Sanderson Ranks The Lord of the Rings as the Best Movie Trilogy of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brandon Sanderson is making quick progress on his own Mistborn movie<\/a> adaptation, but in the meantime he’s been taking a closer look at older movies. In the most recent episode of his podcast<\/a>, Intentionally Blank, he and Dan Wells discussed rankings for the best movie trilogy of all time. Unsurprisingly, The Lord of the Rings<\/a> claimed the top spot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“It was made knowing it would be a trilogy,” Sanderson explains, “Lord of the Rings is cheating because it has the source material, but they could have ruined that source material and they didn’t”.<\/p>\n

Sanderson has spent a lot of time diving into the work of Tolkien and is considered an expert on his work. He’s even got an upcoming lecture on Tolkien<\/a> on May 19 where he’ll be diving into the gritty details of how these books changed fantasy literature forever. So with that in mind, he’s definitely biased toward anything related to The Lord of the Rings books<\/a>. However, he went on to praise Peter Jackson’s adaptations for elevating the source material.<\/p>\n

“I just reread the books. And there are a ton of places where Peter Jackson added a bunch that is great,” said Sanderson, “The Interaction between Sam and Frodo where Sam leaves is better. It is stronger narratively. Helms Deep is way stronger. I know this is blasphemy, but Tolkien wrote the books in an era where he didn’t have what we have now \u2014 which is almost 75 years more of how to build arcs and how to deal with them”.<\/p>\n