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