THE LORD OF THE RINGS

By: Jubi Castro

THE LORD OF THE RINGS HAS TWO FORMATS: THE BOOK END A MOVIE.

The book of the Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by philologist J.R.R Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937), but eventually developed into a much larger work.

• It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949, much of it during World War IIAlthough intended as a single-volume work, it was originally published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955, due to post-war paper shortages, and it is in this three-volume form that it is popularly known.
• It has since been reprinted numerous times and translated into many different languages, becoming one of the most popular and influential works in 20th-century literature.

The movie of the Lord of the Rings is a fantastic story that it impact to all the world with images, also The Lord of the Rings film trilogy consists of three live action fantasy epic films:

• The Fellowship of the Ring in the year 2000), The Two Towersin in the year 2002)and The Return of the King in the year 2003 (often abbreviated to LotR for the trilogy, and FotR, TTT, and RotK for the individual films).
• The trilogy is based on the three-volume book The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
• While they follow the book's general storyline, the films also feature some additions to and deviations from the source material.
  Set in the fictional world of Middle-earth, the three films follow the young hobbit Frodo Baggins as he and a Fellowship embark on a quest to destroy the One Ring, and thus ensure the destruction of its maker, the Dark Lord Sauron.
• The Fellowship becomes divided and Frodo continues the quest together with his loyal companion Sam and the treacherous Gollum. Meanwhile, the wizard Gandalf and Aragorn, heir in exile to the throne of Gondor, unite and rally the Free Peoples of Middle-earth, who are ultimately victorious in the War of the Ring.
  The films were directed by Peter Jackson and distributed by New Line Cinema.
• With an overall budget of $280 million, the entire project took eight years, with the filming for all three films done simultaneously and entirely in Jackson's native New Zealand. Each film in the trilogy also had Special Extended Editions, released on DVD a year after the theatrical releases.

What is the Synopsis of the literary works?
The story of the The Lord of the Rings was written as a novel, but was originally published in three volumes, entitled The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.



What are the difference between the book and movie?

Arwen (Liv Tyler in the movie) is a very minor character in the book. She's still Aragorn's lover but she barely appears. The film-makers cleverly took a lot of stuff that other characters did, and gave it to Arwen to do.

There's a long section from early on in the book, where the hobbits get sidetracked in a small-scale enchanted forest and are sheltered by a mysterious sort of forest spirit named Tom Bombadil, a bit of a proto-hippy.

None of it advances the story in any way, although it's fun to read, so it was cut out of the screenplay.

In the book, Faramir recognises almost immediately that the Ring is dangerous and not to be used as a weapon, and he helps Frodo and Sam much more readily.

In the film, his need to impress his father overrides his basic good sense and he takes Frodo and Sam on a pointless trip to Osgiliath (which doesn't happen in the book) before he realises that Gondor can't use the Ring, and that Frodo has to be helped.

This makes Faramir's story more dramatic, which again I think was a sensible move.

In the book, Faramir's story comes as a relief from the depressing and bleak stuff before and afterwards, but in the film they realised that they needed to give him more of a story, probably in order to make him into a more interesting partner for Eowyn.

Finally, in the book, Saruman does not die at Isengard but is allowed to go free by Treebeard. Much later, when the hobbits finally arrive back in the Shire, they find that Saruman, who now only has the power of his voice, has turned it into a sort of petty dictatorship and has a bunch of shady men running the place, along with some of the weaker hobbits. Merry, Pippin and others raise an army of hobbits to liberate the Shire. Frodo eventually confronts Saruman and pays him the ultimate insult of not killing him but letting him go. Saruman is bitter and tells Frodo that he, Frodo, will neither live long nor be happy. Then, just like in the film, he insults his grovelling sidekick Grima, who then kills Saruman, and is himself killed in turn by the onlooking hobbits. The Shire is cleaned up and restored to its former beauty.In other ways, it's very similar. They did an amazing job of keeping so much of it in. I did miss the small civil war in the Shire at the end, but it probably would have made the last film about half an hour longer and given it even more endings than it already had.BTW, Frodo got exactly that much beaten up in the book. They were extremely faithful to Frodo's suffering. If anything, he suffers a bit less in the films.