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Book Synopsis This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of director Peter Jackson''s spectacularly successful adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien''s Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). Part One of the collection, Techniques of Structure and Story, compares and contrasts the organizational principles of the books and films. Part Two, Techniques of Character and Culture, focuses on the methods used to transform the characters and settings of Tolkien''s narrative into the personalities and places visualized on screen. Each of the sixteen essays includes extensive notes and a separate bibliography.
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Mythlore"A valuable addition to the critical examination of the relationship between Tolkien's novel and Jackson's films...the editors are to be commended for providing a venue for nuanced, interdisciplinary approaches to Jackson's adaptations." —
Journal of the Fantastic in the ArtsTable of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Techniques of Story and Structure
- Gollum Talks to Himself: Problems and Solutions in Peter Jackson's Film Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings
- Sometimes One Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures
- Two Kinds of Absence: Elision and Exclusion in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings
- Tolkien's Resistance to Linearity: Narrating The Lord of the Rings in Fiction and Film
- Filming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings
- Making the Connection on Page and Screen in Tolkien's and Jackson's The Lord of the Rings
- “It's Alive!": Tolkien's Monster on the Screen
- The Matériel of Middle- earth: Arms and Armor in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy
- II. Techniques of Character and Culture
- Into the West: Far Green Country or Shadow on the Waters?
- Frodo Lives but Gollum Redeems the Blood of Kings
- The Grey Pilgrim: Gandalf and the Challenges of Characterization in Middle- earth
- Jackson's Aragorn and the American Superhero Monomyth
- Neither the Shadow nor the Twilight: The Love Story of Aragorn and Arwen in Literature and Film
- Concerning Horses: Establishing Cultural Settings from Tolkien to Jackson
- The Rohirrim, the Anglo- Saxons, and the Problem of Appendix F : Ambiguity, Analogy and Reference in Tolkien's Books and Jackson's Films
- Filming the Numinous: The Fate of Lothlórien in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings
- About the Contributors
- Index
