Welcome to the official Website of Born Of Hope.

This project has been in development for almost 4 years, with the original idea to do a fan film coming about at the end of 2003.

Born of Hope is a fan film prequel to the Lord of the Rings and is inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings in the Appendices of the Trilogy. 

 

In April 2006 we completed a test shoot, filming a collection of scenes and action clips to create various promotional material including a teasers trailer and video featurettes.  The full story has now been developed and we hope to start filming again soon.

 

 

About

 

Born of Hope is a prequel to the Lord of the Rings and is inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings in the Appendices of the Trilogy.  Unlike most fan films Born of Hope is not a spoof or parody, but a serious drama with many aspects of Tolkien’s work and Peter Jackson’s New Line films represented: love, war, family, friendship, good and evil.

 

This project was originally conceived because I wanted to send a film to a Tolkien Fan Film Exhibition, which was held at Tolcon, a convention in Seattle USA in May 2004.   However, from a small spark the idea grew into a hugely ambitious project and would never have been completed to the standard I wanted, for the 2004 Exhibition.