Salon.com > Ilana Teitelbaum http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Has Hollywood ruined Tolkien? http://www.salon.com/2013/01/03/has_hollywood_ruined_tolkien/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/03/has_hollywood_ruined_tolkien/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13161054 Los
Angeles Review of Books
 HOW KIND OF Peter Jackson: for the price of one movie, he gave us two. One of these movies is about a heroic warrior prince fighting for his lost homeland, and some political intrigue with elves and wizards; the other, much shorter, movie concerns a hobbit.

Written by J.R.R. Tolkien as a book for children, The Hobbit is widely regarded as a prelude to the darker and more complex Lord of the Rings trilogy. The One Ring that is the focus of The Lord of the Rings, and which threatens to destroy Tolkien’s world of Middle Earth, is first discovered in The Hobbit by the protagonist Bilbo Baggins. The true nature of the ring is never revealed in The Hobbit — it is depicted simply as a magic ring that conveniently endows Bilbo with the ability to become invisible.

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