The Lord of the Rings

This paper will discuss The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and how it fits with the archetypes and plot points of the Hero’s Journey. The paper starts with a brief explanation of why this piece was selected and how it works with the deconstruction methods. Then, there is the review of…

The Lord of the Rings is an epic fantasy written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien or better known as JRR Tolkien. The story is a sequel to an earlier fantasy novel he penned called The Hobbit (1937). The Lord of the Rings spawned into a large body of work as a trilogy.  It was written…

In the last fifteen years Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings have been the leaders in the fantasy film movement. The use of magic and witchcraft has grabbed audiences out of their seats and into the worlds of Harry and Frodo. The fantasy aspect of these films is just the outer layer. Under the…

Nowadays an increasing interest is attached to the different types of narratives. The analysis of the types of author’s narrative in the works of modern English novelists allows us to penetrate into the inner world of the author and to define the language structures that are used to create the text itself. The types of…

            According to Carl Jung, we humans have a “preconscious psychic disposition” which let us react in a human manner. These psychic dispositions are archetypes, wherein we use it to base the basic themes of human life. In the film Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, we can see several characters that embody…

Fantasy Rhetoric: Summary and Analysis of Katherine Fowkes’s Fantasy Films A Rhetoric Analysis consists of a multitude of attributes some larger than others and some not specifically require. Among those are certain attributes that are what provides the foundation of any Rhetoric work, Logos, Pathos, and Ethos or persuasive appeal. My job is to show…