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