[SKRIVA] Re: TWOZ Vs LOTR

Ahrvid:
But while enjoying this classic film (as one should; it is very well done!) I began to wonder. I began to think about another well-known story: JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (LOTR). My googling suggests that Tolkien began with his first sketches of LOTR in the late 1930's, at the same time as TWOZ was released (1939). I don't know if Tolkien saw it, but it wouldn't be unlikely since the film was a world-wide success, and if you're interested in fantasy stuff it would have been natural to see it. Here're a few things I have to say about the parallels between TWOZ and LOTR:
Jag förstår inte riktigt din poäng här. Det var ju inte Tolkien som uppfann fantasygenren och dess konventioner; den skapades på 1860-talet av George MacDonald och vidareutvecklades av bl.a. Dunsany & Cabell, men fröet såddes redan av ETA Hoffmann på 1820-talet ("Nötknäpparen" samt "Det främmande barnet"). Och L Frank Baum skrev sin bestseller "Trollkarlen från OZ" redan vid sekelskiftet 1900. Den var redan en berömd barnbok när Tolkien tog till pennan. 

Intressant att få paralleller utpekade, dock.

/Rickard

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