Description: Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface by Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny Introduction I. Techniques of Story and Structure Gollum Talks to Himself: Problems and Solutions in Peter Jackson's Film Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings KRISTIN THOMPSON Sometimes One Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures VERLYN FLIEGER Two Kinds of Absence: Elision and Exclusion in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings JOHN D. RATELIFF Tolkien's Resistance to Linearity: Narrating The Lord of the Rings in Fiction and Film E.L. RISDEN Filming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings DIMITRA FIMI Making the Connection on Page and Screen in Tolkien's and Jackson's The Lord of the Rings YVETTE KISOR "It's Alive!": Tolkien's Monster on the Screen SHARIN SCHROEDER The Matriel of Middle- earth: Arms and Armor in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy ROBERT C. WOOSNAM- SAVAGE II. Techniques of Character and Culture Into the West: Far Green Country or Shadow on the Waters? JUDY ANN FORD and ROBIN ANNE REID Frodo Lives but Gollum Redeems the Blood of Kings PHILIP E. KAVENY The Grey Pilgrim: Gandalf and the Challenges of Characterization in Middle- earth BRIAN D. WALTER Jackson's Aragorn and the American Superhero Monomyth JANET BRENNAN CROFT Neither the Shadow nor the Twilight: The Love Story of Aragorn and Arwen in Literature and Film RICHARD C. WEST Concerning Horses: Establishing Cultural Settings from Tolkien to Jackson JANICE M. BOGSTAD The Rohirrim, the Anglo- Saxons, and the Problem of Appendix F : Ambiguity, Analogy and Reference in Tolkien's Books and Jackson's Films MICHAEL D.C. DROUT Filming the Numinous: The Fate of Lothlrien in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings JOSEPH RICKE and CATHERINE BARNETT About the Contributors Index

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