 He wrote six complete scripts in an attempt to find the right approach for Bakshi's version of "Lord of the Rings"—one covered only a third of the epic, one tried to fit the entire saga into a single film, one tried to cut it in half; one version even focusted on a re-telling by Pippin and Merry.There was a good deal of experimentation as to how to approach the enormous saga.Eventually, popular science fiction novelist, Peter S. Beagle, was called in to do some revisions, although Conkling still retained first credit on the final version.