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'The Golden Compass'

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The distant rumble emanating from your neighborhood theater may be the roar of two armored polar bears locked in a roof-quaking duel. Or perhaps it's the final thrump-tum-tum of the drum that New Line has been beating over the past year for "The Golden Compass," the first in a budding trilogy of page-to-screen fantasy epics with unblushing Tolkienesque aspirations.

From the looks of it, the...

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