Throughout the semester, we had briefly talked about common Tolkien themes throughout cinematic history. For example, in the first Narnia movie, the children hide under the tree and are running away from something (it was Santa). In LOTR (The Fellowship), the Hobbits are all headed to Bree, and they hide under the roots of the tree from the Black Riders.
In Harry Potter, the womping willow can be closely related to the tree in the LOTR that attacks people and if you get too close, the roots will swoop you up and kill you. The branches in the womping willow would also do the same by smashing the person that got too close. Also, the spiders in the forbidden forest that are big and talk, related to the Spiders in The Hobbit with Bilbo and the spiders.
In Game of Thrones, the theme really relates to Jon Snow and him being the "True King" which also relates to Eragorn being the True King. Also, the Good v. Evil with the White Walkers v. Kings Landing also Gondor v. Mordor. This could be pretty convincing since they hide behind the gates and wall, and technically so do the walkers. They are also both considered a "supernatural" being.
Tolkien really opened up the world of fantasy to a lot of cinematic goldmines. Without the works of Tolkien, I'm wondering if plotlines would be any different had he never published his works.
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ReplyDeleteI think it's so crazy how Tolkien inspired all these different people to create different fantasy worlds. Tolkien truly did create a genre in this sense and I'm interested to see how many other authors and artists he inspires in the future.
-Frodo