Category: Tolkien
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The Lord of the Rings Explained – Which Two Towers?
Welcome back to my series of posts exploring how J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings differs from its film adaptations. Today I’ll answer a question people ask often: which two towers is the title The Two Towers referring to? In the film we get this line as an answer: ‘The world is changing. …
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The Lord of the Rings Explained – Samwise the Strong
Welcome back to my series detailing how J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings is vastly superior to its film adaptations. Did you know that Samwise Gamgee actually put on the One Ring several times? If you’ve only seen the films, the answer is likely no—just one of many reasons to read the book.
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The Lord of the Rings Explained – Faramir’s Wisdom
Welcome back to my series of posts exploring how J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings differs from its film adaptations. Today’s an important one: perhaps one of the biggest and most detrimental changes of the film. I speak, of course, of the character of Faramir son of Denethor.
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The Lord of the Rings Explained – Isildur’s Secret
Welcome back to my series examining how J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings differs from its film adaptations. Have you ever wondered why the One Ring wasn’t found in the Anduin river for two-and-a-half thousand years? And why does Faramir not immediately guess that it’s the One Ring, anyway? And, I mean, wouldn’t…
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The Lord of the Rings Explained – Three Is Company
Welcome back to my series of posts looking at how J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings is different from its film adaptations. In the film, Frodo and Sam leave Hobbiton the morning after they find out about the One Ring. The movie therefore tells us about as much about Frodo’s cover story as…
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The Lord of the Rings Explained – Hamfast’s Gossip
Welcome back to my series of posts exploring how J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings differs from its film adaptations. Today we’ll be examining how the book begins: specifically how Tolkien informs the reader of the current state of affairs in the Shire.
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The Lord of the Rings Explained – A Conspiracy Unmasked
Welcome to my series of posts exploring how J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings differs from its film adaptations. As one might expect of such a long book, it is considerably more complex than even a twelve-hour movie could hope to get across. Movies are rarely as good as the book, and The…
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The Lord of the Rings Explained – What Moviegoers Missed
We’re all stuck inside hoping we don’t get the current plague, and to give myself something to do, I’ve decided to write a series of articles about my favourite book: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Because as great as the movies are, there’s so much to this story that people who’ve only…
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Review of Rankin/Bass “The Return of the King” (1980)
This cartoon… This is the one that broke me… I feel drained after watching this. Before there was Peter Jackson, there were three cartoons almost unrelated to one another, and I made the mistake of deciding to review all of them. The first was a children’s animated TV special by Rankin/Bass that removed almost every…
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Review of Ralph Bakshi’s “The Lord of the Rings” (1978)
Last year I reviewed the 1977 Rankin/Bass cartoon adaptation of The Hobbit. Today I’ll be taking a look at another such cartoon: Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 attempt to bring The Lord of the Rings to the screen. As I did with the Hobbit cartoon—and as I’m planning to do with the final instalment in the cartoon…