She didn’t have Peter Jackson’s £200 million budget, eight years of filming time or the spectacular scenery of New Zeeland to work with. But Kate Madison could match his boundless passion -- and with it managed to make her own Lord Of The Rings film.

The amateur actress was so inspired by the blockbuster Rings trilogy created by Jackson she wrote, directed and produced a prequel based on material from the original J.R.R. Tolkien books.

Kate Madison plays in this movie herself as the character Elgarain.

This 70 minute original drama is set in the time before the War of the Ring and tells the story of the Dúnedain, the Rangers of the North, before the return of the King. Inspired by only a couple of paragraphs written by Tolkien in the appendices of the Lord of the Rings we follow Arathorn and Gilraen, the parents of Aragorn, from their first meeting through a turbulent time in their people’s history.

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(via Daily Mail)