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-11 posts tagged "lord of the rings"
Mikey Colgan | Tuesday, November 8, 2022
When people brought up “The Lord of the Rings” in the past, I used to laugh at the series. Why would I want to watch a bunch of tiny hobbits, dwarves and elves go on a journey over some fuss about a gold ring? It all sounded far too mythical and fantasy-like for me. In other
Observer Scene | Tuesday, November 8, 2022
By Júlia Jorge and Matheus Herndl When Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” (ROP) was first announced, we, like many fans, were skeptical. This feeling worsened when the first trailer dropped, revealing how 1) most male elves had short hair and 2) no dwarven women had beards. Although these details seem small,
Matheus Herndl | Tuesday, September 13, 2022
The trend of endless movie sequels is by no means a recent one. Ever since the 70s and the birth of summer blockbuster franchises like Jaws or Star Wars, the sequel has been a staple in yearly releases to the joy of some fans and the detriment of others. Indeed, the market dominance of big-budget
Anna Falk, Claire Lyons, Maggie Eastland, Isa Sheikh, Matheus Herndl, Kate Casper, Reyna Lim, Angela Mathew, Gracie Eppler, Cecelia Swartz, Natalie Allton, Nicole Bilyak and Justin George | Friday, April 22, 2022
When’s the last time you read for fun? Yeah. That’s what we thought. But when finals are over and the dust settles, $cene hopes you pick up some summer reading. “I am the Messenger” by Markus Zusak Claire Lyons, Interim Scene Editor Imagine “Taxi Driver,” except it’s wildly optimistic and made in Australia. The
JP Spoonmore | Wednesday, January 12, 2022
After two years of waiting through COVID-19 delays and an almost career-ending leg injury suffered by its star, Netflix’s “The Witcher” released its second season. Unlike the decades-long story threads characteristic of the show’s the previous season, though, the new plot is as temporally straightforward as possible, spanning maybe a month. Though many of the
Andrew Sveda | Monday, September 13, 2021
People always seem surprised about the excitement on my face whenever “The Lord of the Rings” films are mentioned. Maybe it’s because I’m not the kind of person they have in mind when they imagine the standard “Lord of the Rings” fan. But I need not be to fall in love with this film trilogy.
Caroline Lezny | Thursday, October 10, 2019
New Zealand film director and producer Peter Jackson is best known for his work on the fantastical “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and its three prequel films concerning “The Hobbit,” but his most recent project is anything but otherworldly. It has been theorized by literary scholars that the fantasy of Middle-earth present in Jackson’s early
Mary Steurer | Wednesday, November 1, 2017
The Medieval Institute at Notre Dame will celebrate medieval culture and the work of author J.R.R. Tolkien with a special screening of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, co-sponsored by the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Classic Cinema. The festival begins Thursday with an introduction to the films by graduate student Maj-Britt Frenze
Jennifer Vosters | Thursday, January 21, 2016
Last semester, my writing professor forbade us from using the word “relatable” to describe each other’s work. I thought it was because the word was overused, the same way I was forbidden to use the word “skillz” in seventh grade (“You’ve got mad skillz!”). But, after thinking about it, it’s really the idea behind it that’s overused. Yet
Erin Thomassen | Wednesday, April 15, 2015
The seagulls in “Finding Nemo” cry, “Mine. Mine. Mine.” They say this every time I watch the movie. It is a curious phenomenon. Gollum from Lord of the Rings has been known to call some ring “my precious.” Now, I have only seen the first 10 minutes of LOTR, so my character analysis of Gollum