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The Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson is a trilogy series based off of the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is about Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), a hobbit, and his travels across the land to take a ring to a volcano. The purpose of his journey is to destroy the one ring that rules them all. The ring is very dangerous, and takes over anyone that wears it. At first, many people were with this hobbit on his journey. After a while, the hobbit and his neighbor, Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin), split off the

The incredible complexity of Gollum is evident to anyone who watches the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Although he is a CGI character, he offers great emotional depth. There is never any doubt that he is just as real and important as the movies’ non CGI characters. Clearly, animators painstakingly created Gollum to achieve this realism; however, what audiences are less aware of, myself included, is the extremes that Andy Serkis, the actor behind Gollum, went to in order to create him. Now, Serkis is

J.R.R. Tolkien was an amazing author who had the ability to forge stories that have captivated audiences worldwide since the publishing of his first ever book. Part of this literary success comes from his astounding character development; his way of writing causes the reader to truly feel what his characters are experiencing and many a reader has cried at the death of a Tolkien character. However, if most people attempt to think of one of his characters the first ones that come to mind are males

Feminist literary criticism is based on feminist principles and ideology to critique a literary work. It explores patriarchal influence on art, role and representation of women and sexual politics of literary language and style. Feminist critics are often enraged with The Lord of the Rings because most women characters are nothing more than background characters in the novel. There are three who play significant roles in the plot- Arwen, Galadriel and Eowyn. In the films, Peter Jackson increased

Fellowship of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien is perhaps one of the most famous books ever written, and for good reason. The book is innovative, compelling, and repeatedly has you wondering what’s next. It’s main character, Frodo Baggins, goes on a journey that by the end of the book has still yet to be completed. In The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien shows that a hero must keep his desire to complete his goal no matter what, through Frodo’s temptation to return home, the road of trials, and

“And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else desire power” (Jackson 2001). Galadriel, drawing upon the trilogy’s core theme of power, makes an excellent point – and Peter Jackson agrees, for in his cinematic rendition of The Twin Towers, Jackson highlights the solidarity of men in their epic power struggle against themselves. In so doing, the film renders Faramir nearly unrecognizable: he clutches Gollum by the throat and lobs him against a wall, takes Frodo and Sam directly

literally go into war and some feminists also embrace the movie since Eowyn killed the Lord of the Nazgul by declaring “I am no man” (Jackson, 2003) In this article I will try to explain the trilogy Lord of the Rings from the realist perspective. In the first part of the article I will give a brief summary of the trilogy The Lord of the Rings, in the second part I will explain realist IR theory in general and in the third

The importance of motivation in an individual’s life is immense, and the impact that motivation has on the life of an individual is considerably significant. Due to the vast effect that motivation has on an individual's life, the nature of the motivation also has a great effect on the individual's life. Through the film Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Peter Jackson develops the idea that the nature of the motivations that direct an individual’s course of action stems from the conflict

After reading the novel, “The Fellowship of the Ring,” written by J.R.R. Tolkien, one message that J.R.R. Tolkien has shown to the readers throughout the novel is that, power corrupts all who seek it. The novel is set in a place called Middle-earth where the Dark Lord, Sauron, forged a Ring from his life force so that he could rule all of Middle-earth and its inhabitants. But, Sauron the Ring was then stolen, and for a long time he believed that the ring was lost forever. Many years later the ring

but the Dark Lord. One who succumbs to the temptation meets the destiny of Gollum and Denethor. The individuals who abstain from it are rewarded for their virtues. Sam and Faramir serve as examples. The other symbol of power and mysterious object in Lord of The Rings is the Palantir, a seeing stone. Palantir is 'a globe of precious stone, dim however shining with a heart of flame.' (Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings. 569). It serves for correspondence between distant places. Palantiri were also called