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This category lists articles on films based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.Most of the action in the films takes place in the Third Age.In Letter 211 (1958), Tolkien estimated the time between the destruction of the ring at the end of the Third age and the present day to be about 6000 years.
After Middle-earth Enterprises was acquired by Embracer Group, Warner Bros. and New Line signed a new deal with them to make more The Lord of the Rings live-action films. [142] In May 2024, the studios announced that two new films were in development with Jackson, Walsh, and Boyens producing.
[25] [26] Flieger further writes that some of the dreams in The Lord of the Rings "are so intertangled that we find ourselves participating in a kind of waking dream or a dream-memory without knowing which is which, when or how we got there." She gives as the prime example the episode in Lothlórien, which she notes Tolkien hints is "outside ...
His professional knowledge of Beowulf, telling of a pagan world but with a Christian narrator, [2] helped to shape his fictional world of Middle-earth. His intention to create what has been called "a mythology for England" [T 2] led him to construct not only stories but a fully-formed world, Middle-earth, with languages, peoples, cultures, and ...
J. R. R. Tolkien built a process of decline and fall in Middle-earth into both The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.. The pattern is expressed in several ways, including the splintering of the light provided by the Creator, Eru Iluvatar, into progressively smaller parts; the fragmentation of languages and peoples, especially the Elves, who are split into many groups; the successive falls ...
J. R. R. Tolkien came to feel that the flat earth cosmology he embodied in his legendarium would be unacceptable to a modern readership. In The Silmarillion, Earth was created flat and was changed to round as a cataclysmic event during the Second Age in order to prevent direct access by Men to Valinor, home of the immortals. [1]
In the summer of 1998, Hollywood offered up not one, but two blockbuster films about asteroids hurtling towards Earth. Released on May 8 of that year, Deep Impact, directed by Mimi Leder, told a ...
Both Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins leave Bag End, their comfortable home, setting off into the unknown on their journeys, and returning changed.. Scholars, including psychoanalysts, have commented that J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth stories about both Bilbo Baggins, protagonist of The Hobbit, and Frodo Baggins, protagonist of The Lord of the Rings, constitute psychological journeys.