Peter S. Beagle

Wrote an introduction that appears in most contemporary editions of The Lord of the Rings, and also wrote the screenplay for Ralph Bakshi's film adaptation. The animated adaptation of The Last Unicorn featured two actors from other productions of The Lord of the Rings: Theodore Gottlieb voiced Gollum in "Return of the King, The (1980)(TV)_, and Christopher Lee appeared in Peter Jackson's films.

[on his novel The Last Unicorn] Young people have discovered it and find, for one reason or another, that they're not alone, that the unicorn searching for her own people gives them courage. I've always been alone, it's just that I have a few weird friends. And if you have a few weird friends, you can manage.