Reading and Understanding Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: A Survey of Critical Responses, by Robert C. The final essay, “Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz,” compares and contrasts film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings to the classic Wizard of Oz.įollowing these four Critical Context essays is the Critical Readings section of this book, which contains the following essays: Evans respectively. The first, “‘The Departure of Boromir”: A Close Reading,” illustrates the benefits of paying close attention to specific textual details when approaching literature. The following two articles are written by John R. This section opens with an essay by Nancy Bunting titled, “Speak Memory: Some Biographical Sources of The Lord of the Rings, ” followed by a piece by Brandon Schneeberger, “Teaching Tolkien: An Overview of Approaches,” This essay provides practical suggestions on teaching Tolkien’s works to make them accessible to a wide variety of students.
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