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A) Philippa Boyens B) Verlyn Flieger C) Janet Brennan Croft D) Victoria Gaydosik
A) Gimli B) Denethor C) Frodo D) Aragorn
A) J.R.R. Tolkien B) Joseph Campbell C) Janet Brennan Croft D) Verlyn Flieger
A) Gimli B) Sam C) Frodo D) Aragorn
A) Victoria Gaydosik B) Verlyn Flieger C) Janet Brennan Croft D) Fran Walsh
A) Wise queen B) Lone ranger C) Dark enchantress D) Warrior princess
A) He does not love them B) He is already married C) The chastity required in the American monomyth D) He is cursed
A) Necessary evils B) Creative improvements C) The filmmaker's vision D) Crimes against the book
A) A ring of power B) A hand-woven banner C) A letter of protection D) An enchanted sword
A) The studio ignored it B) It was completely scrapped C) It changed radically D) It remained the same
A) The lack of source material B) The director's hatred for the original books C) Requests from Tolkien's estate D) The length of the source text
A) Engage in constant battle B) Ignore the moral implications of their mission C) Pause for reflection and lamentation D) Travel without resting
A) They are shown through animated drawings B) They are entirely omitted C) Through actual landscapes or computer-generated imagery D) They are described only through voiceovers
A) Jackson was under greater financial pressure B) Tolkien had more financial pressure C) Jackson was under less financial pressure D) Jackson faced no financial pressure
A) The dialogue spoken by the characters B) The appearance of mountain ranges C) The appearance of the Shire D) The indirect suggestion of the power of the One Ring
A) Family trees, calendars, and language guides B) Scripts for the films C) Unfinished chapters of a sequel D) Interviews with Peter Jackson
A) All dialogue is taken word for word B) Much is cut, some is kept, and some is voiced by different characters C) None of the original dialogue is used D) All dialogue is replaced with new lines
A) Children under the age of five B) Professional film critics exclusively C) Scholars of Middle-earth history D) Teenagers who expected a 'warrior princess' version of Arwen
A) Changing the names of all the main characters B) Removing all mentions of the Shire C) Adding minor characters D) Using a different plot entirely
A) The manufacturing process of fireworks B) The specific recipes for hobbit meals C) The social and political organisation D) The secret map of hidden caves
A) A complete failure of the film B) Differences of style C) The loss of all character motivation D) A perfect replica of the book
A) They were added by the Tolkien estate B) Tolkien loved them C) Tolkien would not have understood them D) They were the most important part of the film
A) 1954–1955 B) 1999–2001 C) 2001–2003 D) 2005–2007
A) The quality of the music B) The epic scale of the story C) Psychological depth D) The use of sets and costumes
A) Over 50 million B) Over 200 million C) Over 100 million D) Over 150 million
A) Exactly 100 B) Around 25 C) Less than 10 D) At least 58
A) Exactly 24 hours B) About 40 hours C) Over 100 hours D) Nearly 60 hours
A) Morton Grady Zimmerman B) Vincent Ferré C) Peter Jackson D) Forrest J. Ackerman
A) Complete reimagining of the plot B) Selective omission C) Changing the characters' motivations D) Total faithfulness to the text
A) The use of animation B) The choice of director C) The music choices D) Excessive compression
A) Vincent Ferré B) Rob Inglis C) Morton Grady Zimmerman D) Forrest J. Ackerman
A) A dragon encounter B) A romantic subplot C) A musical number D) A fairy castle
A) 2003-2005 B) 2000-2002 C) 1998-2000 D) 2001-2003
A) As average cinema B) As almost perfect C) As a major disappointment D) As strictly accurate to the books
A) The Return of the King B) The Two Towers C) The Fellowship of the Ring D) None of them
A) J.R.R. Tolkien B) Kristin Thompson C) Janet Brennan Croft D) Peter Jackson
A) The short runtime of the films B) The poor acting quality C) The films' enormous popularity D) The low box office returns
A) Flight to the Ford B) The Old Forest C) The Prancing Pony D) At the Sign of the Prancing Pony
A) Fell Beasts B) Mûmakil C) Wargs D) Great Eagles
A) Isildur B) Elrond C) Boromir D) Aragorn
A) The slow pace of the Shire chapters B) The reliance on 'talking heads' to explain history C) The absence of Saruman's backstory D) The lack of female characters
A) Circular narrative B) Episodic storytelling C) Interlacing structure (entrelacement) D) First-person perspective
A) Isengard B) The Shire C) Mordor D) Rivendell
A) Tom Shippey B) Peter Jackson C) Philippa Boyens D) John Rateliff |