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The World Hobbit Project in Finland : Audience responses and transmedial user practices
2016
This article examines audience engagement with The Hobbit fantasy film trilogy as a participatory and transmedial experience. To do so, we use the data collected by The World Hobbit Project in order to investigate the transmedial user practices of the Finnish audience of the trilogy. We will, firstly, look at what kinds of transmedial user practices – and transmedia users – emerge from our data. Secondly, we will ask the following questions: How do transmedia users receive and experience the films? What are the meanings assigned to The Hobbit films and the fantasy texts and user practices related to them, and what do these meanings tell of the broader meanings and uses of fantasy? Doing so,…
Engaging with film characters : Empirical study on the reception of characters in The Hobbit films
2017
Characters are important for the audience reception of films, but little empirical research on actual audiences has been conducted on the topic of character reception. Are characters important for all audiences, and if not, what are the possible reasons and implications? How do audiences construct their engagement with characters? I argue that in addition to elements in Murray Smith’s classic model, structure of sympathy, other elements should be included when studying character engagement. This article presents an empirical study on the reception of characters using the Nordic responses (4,879 total) drawn from the global audience survey on The Hobbit fantasy film trilogy (Jackson, An Unex…
"More hard-to-remember names than a Russian novel" : special names, their significance, types, and relative hierarchy in J. R. R. Tolkien's Quenta Si…
2007
“I’m just being a difficult LoTR hardcore fan” : Tolkien Fans’ Actions and Reactions to Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy
2022
Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy has been debated and discussed widely. Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien have had strong opinions about the films, and I believe that their online conversations about the movies call for a closer look. I am particularly interested in Tolkien fans’ reactions to the films; the reasons for these reactions; and the actions they provoked. Some fans loved the possibility of revisiting Middle-earth. They drew a clear distinction between the book and the movies, showing understanding towards the changes and additions required by the adaptation process. Pitted against them were the fans who experienced the films negatively. This group did not differentiate between the movies …
J. R. R. Tolkienin teoksen The Hobbit or There and Back Again ja sen kahden eri suomennoksen nimistöt genren ja kronotopian rakentajina.
2002
Tolkien's Land of Heroes : Fëanor, a tragic hero of Middle-Earth in comparison to Seppo Ilmarinen from the Kalevala
2013
Tämän kandidaatintutkielman tarkoituksena oli analysoida Fëanoria, fantasiakirjailija J.R.R. Tolkienin luomaa fiktiivistä sankarihahmoa. Kuvaileva kirjallisuustutkimus jakaantui kahteen osaan: Toisaalta Fëanoria verrattiin traagisen sankarin käsitteeseen käyttämällä Aristoteleen Runousopissa (330-320 eKr.) kuvailemia sääntöjä ja vaatimuksia. Toisaalta Fëanoria verrattiin Kalevalan myyttiseen seppähahmoon, Seppo Ilmariseen. Fëanoria ja Seppo Ilmarista vertailemalla tarkasteltiin myös yleisemmin J.R.R. Tolkienin teosten ja Kalevalan, Suomen kansalliseepoksen välistä vuorovaikutussuhdetta. Tutkimuksen materiaalina käytettiin Kalevalan lisäksi J.R.R. Tolkienin Silmarillionia, joka on suurilta o…
Il nome della mappa. Traduzioni cartografiche del mondo di Tolkien
2021
Il lavoro di subcreazione che Tolkien porta avanti nelle sue opere si basa su due elementi principali: l’invenzione di lingue ricche e credibili e l’ideazione di un mondo geograficamente verosimile, veicolato da carte geografiche estremamente dettagliate. I toponimi presenti sulle carte sono quindi il trait d’union tra lingue e geografia e a loro sarà dedicato questo articolo. I toponimi del Signore degli Anelli, così come tutta la geopolitica della Terra di Mezzo, derivano direttamente dalle lingue antiche e dalla geografia europea dei tempi Tolkien: qui di seguito si analizzeranno dunque le differenze tra i toponimi originari e la loro resa nelle due principali traduzioni italiane. The su…