BILBO’S ADVENTURETHEO 226

13-10-2015

SAMUEL FARRUGIA

THE MAN BEHIND THE MYTH

• J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

• English philologist

• University professor

• The Hobbit (1937)

• + 100 million copies sold

• The Lord of the Rings (1954-55)

• + 150 million copies sold

• A great friend of C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia, etc.) and played a major role in Lewis’ conversion to Christianity.

LOTR: TOLKIEN’S MAGNUM OPUSLOTR WAS MADE INTO A CINEMATIC TRILOGY: 2001-2003

PETER JACKSON’S CINEMATIC ADAPTATIONTHE HOBBIT TRILOGY: 2012-2014

MIDDLE-EARTH

TOLKIEN’S “GENESIS”(POSTHUMOUSLY: 1977)

THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: ISTARI

THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: DARK POWERS

THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: ELVES

THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: MEN

THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: DWARVES

THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: GOBLINS

THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: HOBBITS

THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: HOBBITS

THE RACES OF MIDDLE-EARTH: HOBBITS

HEROES

The hero and the saint are “ideal types”

• Both are important and neither should be dismissed in relation to the other.

Heroes

• Heroes are persons of great courage who perform extraordinary and praiseworthy

deeds.

– historical, mythical, spiritual, etc.

• before becoming a hero – they are unknown, ordinary – conflict draws out the

courage of the hero.

• heroes push through the fear; courage isn’t absence of fear, but rather facing it;

they acknowledge their feelings but rise above them.

• heroes fight for others.

“IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND THERE LIVED A HOBBIT…”

« …IT WAS A HOBBIT-HOLE, AND THAT MEANS COMFORT. »

« I’M LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO SHARE IN AN ADVENTURE »

« I’M LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO SHARE IN AN ADVENTURE »

AN UNEXPECTED PARTY

AN UNEXPECTED PARTY

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AN UNEXPECTED PARTY

« I’M GOING ON AN ADVENTURE » !

PERILS ON THE ROAD