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