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A Comparative Study on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Peter Jackson's The Hobbit Trilogy

2024; IGI Global; Linguagem: Inglês

10.4018/979-8-3693-1958-1.ch013

2475-6830

Zeynep Kopan, Yüksel Balaban,

Themes in Literature Analysis

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's fantasy novel for children, The Hobbit, has always been regarded as a canonical work of art by the literary critics. The journey through Middle-earth has flourished with this novel and paved the way for his other canonical trilogy, The Lord of Rings. The novel has also been adapted for the cinema by the director, Peter Jackson with a series of three fantasy films. Whereas Tolkien has actually written the novel for children, Jackson has filmed the trilogy for the adults. Right along with this different aim on the target audience between Tolkien and Jackson, there are also numerous differences and changes between the novel and the film series. Thus, the purpose of this study is to compare J.R.R. Tolkien's novel, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1937) with Peter Jackson's film series, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) in terms of the journey, the fellowship and the space based on Linda Hutcheon's adaptation theory.