One cost more than £200 million, took eight years to film using the spectacular scenery of New Zealand and won 17 Oscars.
The other cost £25,000, was filmed over a year in muddy English locations, and has not been nominated for any awards.
But for Lord Of The Rings trilogy fanatic Kate Madison, filming a prequel was the purest form of art - a labour of love.
And she appears to have been vindicated after posting the hour-long film, Born Of Hope, on the internet where it has been viewed - for free - by more than 500,000 people.
The 31-year-old amateur actress was so inspired by director Peter Jackson's big screen version of the classic J.R.R. Tolkien tale that she decided to make her own movie.
Her own addition to the mythology of Middle-earth was based on two paragraphs Tolkien included in the appendix to his Lord Of The Rings books, which mentioned the adventures of Arathorn and Gilraen, the parents of Aragorn, played in the big budget films by Viggo Mortenson.
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