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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring • rated PG-13 • distributed by New Line Cinema • directed by Peter Jackson (The Frighteners) • starring Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins; Ian McKellen as Gandalf; Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn (aka Strider); Sean Astin as Sam; Christopher Lee as Saruman; Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins; Sean Bean as Boromir; Hugo Weaving as Elrond; Cate Blanchett as Galadriel; Liv Tyler as Arwen; Orlando Bloom as Legolas; Billy Boyd as Pippin; Dominic Monaghan as Merry; John Rhys-Davies as Gimli • reviewed by Bob Smithouser It's helpful to think of the three-hour epic The Fellowship of the Ring as the first act of a three-act play which includes the films The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Middle-earth, with its diverse population of men, elves, hobbits, dwarves and wizards, stands at a crossroads. For generations, these races and tribes have battled to keep the dark lord Sauron at bay. Insulated from this ongoing conflict are the hobbits, a carefree, simple-hearted colony of little people too busy farming the land, enjoying food and raising families to care much about the ominous occurrences outside of the Shire. But their pastoral existence, indeed the future of all Middle-earth, is threatened when Sauron, obsessed with recovering an evil ring that would give him supreme power, learns that his prize is somewhere in the Shire.
The Lord of the Rings analysis of marketing.
Benjamin Woollan 10Br English Media. The Lord of the Rings analysis of marketing. The first time I was aware of the Lord of the rings was when I saw a trailer for the film back in the 29th of October 2001 whilst watching "Legally Blonde." All though this was the first time I saw a trailer I have been told that teaser trailer have been running since November 2000 one year before the release date. The placing of this trailer also tells me of the kind of audience there campaign will be concentrating on as Legally Blonde is very much aimed at the teenage audience. The lord of the rings got a lot of radio and television coverage with short dialogs being aired on a local radio show power fm. Television adverts for toys have become more and more frequent being aired around 5:30 p.m (see LORT tracking sheet). Where most of the teenage television is showed. Also adverts for the actual film itself. I first saw and heard these adverts at the end of October and beginning of November right through to the present day. Sticker books where released in the shops on the 20th of November (see source one). In addition, the whole cast of the lord of the rings where on several mourning television shows for children. One such being SM: TV live where the whole cast was on the show for the whole mourning. Bus adverts of the main poster were being published issued to the bus shelters and buses
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The film LOTR has multiple genres. It covers the genre of action, adventure and fantasy. The battles and wide landscape cover the action,
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) "Three Rings for the Elven- kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf- lords in their halls of stone, Nine for the Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie." This is how all the three parts of the epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings, starts. J.R.R. Tolkien is the author of the successful book. Arthur Reuel Tolkien, was a bank clerk. He went to South Africa in the 1890s for a better opportunity of a promotion. He was joined by his wife, Mabel Suffield. They had two children together. The eldest child, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, is known as the author of the book The Lord of the Rings. He was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on 3 January 1892. He did not have a good memory of Africa since his father died on 15 February 1896. J.R.R Tolkien, his mother and his younger brother, Hilary, returned to England, where their parents originally came from. The Tolkien family went through a time of poverty. The situation became worse in 1904, when Mabel Tolkien was told that she had diabetes. During that time, diabetes was incurable. She died on 15 October 1904. J.R.R. Tolkien and his brother were taken over by Father
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Title: Lord of the rings: Fellowship of the ring Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Number of pages: 535 Date commenced: August 17th Date completed: August 30th "Masterpiece? Oh yes I've no doubt about that" Evening Standard The book Lord of the rings: Fellowship of the Ring tells of an epic journey taken by a group of creatures called hobbits. Hobbits who are brilliantly described as "an unobtrusive but very ancient people....they love peace and quiet and good toiled earth" are not classified as the adventuring type although Bilbo Baggins changed the history of the hobbit nation by embarking on his debut adventure in The hobbit another of Tolkien's books. On this adventure he finds the master ring created by the dark lord, this ring is the "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." After Bilbo's eleventy first birthday party where he mysteriously vanishes with the aid of the ring before leaving to move away Gandalf the grey a powerful wizard promises to look after Frodo and to give him the ring after, persuading Bilbo to actually give the ring away. Later the black riders are seen scouring the shire in middle earth (where the hobbits and the one ring are situated in the hope to salvage the ring and bring it back to Sauron the great who is the dark lord. Gandalf helps Frodo plan his escape and adventure to save
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English Media Assignment - The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Rings An analysis of the portrayal of Frodo and the Shire Frodo is the main character in this movie; throughout the film, he plays a vital role in the plot. In this essay, I will be analysing the portrayal of Frodo and the Shire. Before we meet Frodo in the Shire, a prologue introduces the film and is full of evil and fiery mountains. This contrasts greatly with the lush, green Shire. Our first view of Frodo in the film is when he is under a tree reading - this gives us an impression of intellectuality and that he is educated. Also, the fact that he is sitting under a tree, surrounded be green, suggests that he is at one with nature - he is a nature lover like all hobbits. The shot of Frodo sitting under a tree is the first we see of the Shire. In this film, this is very important as it gives us - the audience - an impression of the Shire and it will stay with us throughout the rest of the film and the rest of the trilogy. So, with all the green wonders of nature around Frodo, we see Frodo as an innocent hobbit and we do not associate him with anything evil. Frodo sitting under a tree alone also suggests that he is a solitary person. Music and sound effects are two very important features in a film, which need to be addressed carefully and skilfully. The theme music for the Shire is particularly
Compare and contrast the poems "Cousin Kate" and "The seduction".
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How Effective Is The Promotional Media For: The Lord Of The Rings Return Of The King The promotional media for the final episode of this epic trilogy differs slightly to that of the first two. This time it is more dark and foreboding, as it is time for the final battle of Middle Earth. All the posters are full of solemn faces, either deep in battle, or staring, with a face that tells us they know something terrible is coming. The effectiveness of this relies on you knowing what has happened in the first films, and knowing a basic outline of what will happen in the third chapter. In the trailer, the first few frames show this darkness perfectly; mountains on the horizon silhouetted against a black sky, but with a glowing yellow-red rising from behind, and remains of a building in the foreground to the left, but although it portrays the darkness in the film, it looks a bit cheesy to me, like it's a particularly badly made film. Then it starts to redeem itself, showing Aragorn and Legolas talking in the dark, and flashbacks of the Ring, the forest and Gandalf. Straight after this they show some evil-looking black dragons swooping down towards the land. The way these couple of shots have been done is decidedly good, and definitely makes up for the poor start. It gives a feeling of the past, like something happened long before, that now they're about to find out about an