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Beyond the Movie

Introduction

Narrator:

This is perhaps the best-loved story of our modern age: The fantastic tale of an epic quest to save a world in conflict.

Narrator:

The literary trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, comes to life in the first of three films of NewLine Cinema.

[Elrond and warriors of the S.A. running in front of a moving camera, A pick up truck loaded with cameras/ A Black rider galloping besides/ Gandalf on the way to Minas Tirith]

Narrator:

The film is a mythic quest to destroy a ring, which will rid the world of a great evil. [Gandalf rides to Isengard]

Frodo:

There are markings, some form of elvish. I can't read it.
(Frodos holds the Ring in his hands, the elvish signs are seen clearly.)

Gandalf:

There are few who can.

Narrator:

At first glance, the movie conjures of a world totally different from our own.

[Hobbits feasting at Bilbo's birthday party, fireworks,

Narrator:

Yet, this world is under threat, in a way that is strangely familiar.

[Frodo enters Bag End in the dark, a hand grabs his shoulder.]

Gandalf:

"Is it secret? Is it safe!"

[The ring lays on the tiles in the hall of Bag End.]

Elijah Wood:

If you ever read 'Lord of the Rings', you feel as if it actually existed.

Narrator:

Who created the Lord of the Rings , and what real life events inspired him?

[Fellowship in Moria/ Solders of World War I marching/ someone's writing in a torn notebook,

Peter Jackson:

He brought a lot of his adventures of the horrible war into the 'Lord of the Rings'.

[Soldiers in the trenches, barbed wires, bombs exploding,

Peter Jackson:

You know, it's important to us that we portray it as a very destructive, very horrifying experience.

[The hobbits goes upstairs at Amon Sul...
Orcs smashing the door to Mazarbul...
Legolas, Aragorn shooting arrows ...
Troll comes... ]

Narrator:

How does this imagined world shed light on mysteries of our own ancestor's past?

[Aragorn leads the hobbits into the wild
Fellowships passes ruins in Eregion,
Stonehenge, 112stonehenge
Old warrior's helmet (Beowulf?),
Elendil(?) ,

Narrator:

And how does a vanishing tradition on earth inspire on of the movie's most amazing features?

[Folk dancers performing a round dance/ Elfes running in Lothlorien,

Narrator:

The race of elves with their own language.

[Arwen gives her pendant to Aragorn on the bridge in Rivendell]

Liv Tyler:

One of my favourite elvish lines: Law, hŒr n¡n, £ dollen i RŒw. An¡rach, nui l–, gwannad uin gwaith l¡n?

Narrator:

Does this quest to rid the world of evil reflect our contemporary struggle? [Black riders leaving MinasMorgul/ Black rider attacks Frodo at Buckleburry Ferry / Frodo presents the Ring at Elrond's council]

Philippa Boyens:

The journey that Frodo takes is to endure huge evil. Can we willingly do this in our modern day, can we knowingly unmake? Things that we know never should come into being? [Streams of fire in Barad-dur/ fiery Mount Doom/ marching Middle-earth army,

Frodo:

I wish none of this had happened

[Frodo/ Aragorn fighting at AmonSul/ Hobbits hiding under the root]

Narrator:

Join us now as we go beyond the movie to explore the surprising connections between our own world and the fictional realm of the 'Lord of the Rings'

[Sailors in an ancient boat, Fayes hiking in the jungle, Fellowship passes the Argonath]

Gandalf:

You cannot pass!

Aragorn and Frodo on the breaking stair flight in Moria]

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