[SKRIVA] Re: TWOZ Vs LOTR
- From: Rickard Berghorn <berghorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:49:38 +0200
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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