Janice M. Bogstad is a professor of women's studies and English and head of technical services at the McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Her written work has appeared in more than 60 reference books. University of Wisconsin-Madison Emeritus Philip E. Kaveny is an independent scholar, author, playwright, poet and lecturer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface by Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny
Introduction

I. Techniques of Story and Structure

Gollum Talks to Himself: Problems and Solutions in Peter Jackson's Film Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings

KRISTIN THOMPSON

Sometimes One Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures

VERLYN FLIEGER

Two Kinds of Absence: Elision and Exclusion in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings

JOHN D. RATELIFF

Tolkien's Resistance to Linearity: Narrating The Lord of the Rings in Fiction and Film

E.L. RISDEN

Filming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings

DIMITRA FIMI

Making the Connection on Page and Screen in Tolkien's and Jackson's The Lord of the Rings

YVETTE KISOR

"It's Alive!": Tolkien's Monster on the Screen

SHARIN SCHROEDER

The Matériel of Middle- earth: Arms and Armor in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy

ROBERT C. WOOSNAM- SAVAGE

II. Techniques of Character and Culture

Into the West: Far Green Country or Shadow on the Waters?

JUDY ANN FORD and ROBIN ANNE REID

Frodo Lives but Gollum Redeems the Blood of Kings

PHILIP E. KAVENY

The Grey Pilgrim: Gandalf and the Challenges of Characterization in Middle- earth

BRIAN D. WALTER

Jackson's Aragorn and the American Superhero Monomyth

JANET BRENNAN CROFT

Neither the Shadow nor the Twilight: The Love Story of Aragorn and Arwen in Literature and Film

RICHARD C. WEST

Concerning Horses: Establishing Cultural Settings from Tolkien to Jackson

JANICE M. BOGSTAD

The Rohirrim, the Anglo- Saxons, and the Problem of Appendix F : Ambiguity, Analogy and Reference in Tolkien's Books and Jackson's Films

MICHAEL D.C. DROUT

Filming the Numinous: The Fate of Lothlórien in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings

JOSEPH RICKE and CATHERINE BARNETT

About the Contributors
Index