Three of the seven films that have grossed over $800,000,000 worldwide were released within a five-month period, and all three were fantasy films: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (number 2, released November 2001, gross $965,700,000), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (number 5, December 2001, $860,200,000), and Spider-Man (number 7, April 2002, $803,600,000). 1 Indeed, except for the highest-grossing film, Titanic, the top ten are all fantasies (assuming The Lion King can be put into ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2003 - University of Texas Press | The Velvet Light Trap
... good and evil are dichotomous, and the protagonist, Frodo Baggins, knows with certainty what he must do if ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2020 - Royal College of General Practitioners | British Journal of General Practice
Michael Treschow, Mark Duckworth,
... before his better judgment finally gave way to Frodo Baggins. As for Trotter, although he may seem absurd ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2006 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... chapter, Body in Question: The Unhealed Wounds of Frodo Baggins, proposes to show that [w]hat happens to ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2014 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... THE LORD OF THE RINGS follows journey of Frodo Baggins as he travels away safety and familiarity of his home in Shire to fulfill almost impossible mission of destroying powerful One Ring. Along with his faithful servant Sam, Frodo travels literally to other side of his world ...
Tópico(s): Child Therapy and Development
2008 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... lose one's way; for a hobbit like Frodo Baggins—pursued by enemies and burdened with a heavy purpose—his chance confrontation with the creature Gollum in those dread hills offered him a merciful opportunity to choose cooperation over conflict. By sparing the life of the pathetic creature, even against the advice of his friend Samwise Gamgee, Frodo managed to make common cause with his adversary, ...
Tópico(s): Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
2016 - Springer International Publishing | The Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series
... very few previous attempts studied by others, concerning Frodo Baggins' role as the main and the most tragic ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
2013 - Australian International Academic Centre PTY. LTD. | International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature
... first book of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins and three companions travel eastward from their home, ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2020 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... of the Rings, as the Hobbiton hobbits discuss Frodo’s ‘multicultural’ ancestry: “Baggins is his name, but he’s more...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2013 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... a space of such utter permeability. Of course, Frodo Baggins is the obvious example of wounding or disability ... s The Body in Question: Unhealed Wounds of Frodo Baggins, in which Flieger argues that the changes that come about in various circumstances and situations are emblematic of Frodo's changing relationship to himself, to the 'real' ...
Tópico(s): Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
2016 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... Rings, members of the Shire are celebrating Bilbo Baggin's 111th birthday. Although Frodo's uncle had received many compliments on how ...
Tópico(s): Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
2020 - Wiley | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
... has come into the possession of the hobbit Frodo Baggins, and the central quest of the book is the effort of Frodo and his companions to destroy the Ring. In ...
Tópico(s): Comics and Graphic Narratives
2019 - Johns Hopkins University Press | American imago
... ended up foreshadowing Isildur, Earendil, and vaguely even Frodo Baggins. It is safe to say that some characters became archetypes within Tolkien's own mythology--Beren prefigures Frodo, Morgoth Sauron, and Glorfindel Gandalf (to some extent). ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2015 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... he is not in the position of a Frodo Baggins, with one single mission informing his one, three- ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
1989 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Children's Literature Association quarterly
Roszainora Setia, Maziana Osman, Shazila Abdullah, Kamaruzaman Jusoff,
... in the struggle. 3.2 cast characters of Frodo Baggins, Gandalf the Grey, Aragon, Boromir, Sam, Pippin, Merry, ...
Tópico(s): Media, Communication, and Education
2009 - Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture | Canadian social science
... history and literature by Cincinnatus, George Washington, and Frodo Baggins. It then connects this humble heroism to the ...
Tópico(s): Law in Society and Culture
2010 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... to the vulnerability of the individual body of Frodo Baggins. In visualizing the trilogy, an obsession is born, ...
Tópico(s): Comics and Graphic Narratives
2012 - Intellect | Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance
... Who is Tom Bombadil?: Interpreting the Light in Frodo Baggins and Tom Bombadil's Role in the Healing ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2020 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... and return to Cecil Bean. Leek is the Frodo Baggins of Hat, relying on the kindness of strangers ...
2020 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
... semantic puzzles, such as how fictional names like ‘Frodo Baggins’ can be meaningful if they lack referents. Such ...
Tópico(s): Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
2021 - Oxford University Press | Mind
... them Ringbearers after the humble, yet venturesome hobbit, Frodo Baggins, who through no choice of his own encountered ...
Tópico(s): Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
2022 - Elsevier BV | Journal of clinical lipidology
... The History of The Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins and Part Two: Return to Bag-End. Also of considerable interest will be Kristin Thompson's The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern ...
2007 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... one Ring. The story, narrated by Gandalf to Frodo, corrects Bilbo’s earlier history, which the elder Baggins had falsely recounted to Thorin and Company on ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2022 - University of St. Thomas | logos
... Alice in Wonderland" (52). He asserts that, unlike Frodo's renunciative quest in The Lord of the Rings, "taken in and for itself, Tolkien's children's story deserves little serious, purely literary criticism" (52), and concludes that "as Bilbo Baggins grew up, so did Tolkien's imagination" (53). ...
Tópico(s): Comics and Graphic Narratives
1988 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Children's Literature Association quarterly
... by Matthew Dickerson, and: A Hobbit Devotional: Bilbo Baggins and the Bible by Ed Strauss Donald T. ... trade paperback). ISBN 9781587433009. A Hobbit Devotional: Bilbo Baggins and the Bible, by Ed Strauss. Uhrichsville, OH: ... the criticism but notices a significant pattern. Gandalf, Frodo, Elrond, Aragorn, Faramir, and...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2013 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... third chapter, Hren considers the theory that Bilbo Baggins is a "bourgeois burglar" and explores Sombart's ... returns through the king, not the modern tyrant. Frodo's pity toward Sméagol and, to a lesser ... about higher power in Middle-earth to help Frodo destroy the Ring. Hren writes, "In Tolkien's ... saved not merely through the lone quest of Frodo, or by Aragorn descending in some single-handed ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2020 - SAGE Publishing | Christianity & Literature