He derived many aspects of The Lord of the Rings from the poem, including the heroic culture of the Riders of Rohan, who resemble the Anglo-Saxons in everything including their Old English language, except for Rohan's widespread use of horses. Tolkien was a philologist and an expert in heroic Anglo-Saxon culture and literature, especially Beowulf. The heroic aspects of The Lord of the Rings derive from sources including Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon culture, seen especially in the society of the Riders of Rohan and its leaders Théoden, Éomer, and Éowyn and from Germanic, especially Old Norse, myth and legend, seen for example in the culture of the Dwarves.įurther information: Beowulf in Middle-earth Scholars have seen the quest of the dissimilar heroes Aragorn and Frodo as a psychological journey of individuation, and from a mythic point of view of marking the end of the old-in Frodo's quest with its bitter ending, and the start of the new, in Aragorn's. His servant Sam sets out to take care of his beloved master, and rises through the privations of the quest to destroy the Ring to become heroic. Frodo is an unheroic, home-loving Hobbit who has heroism thrust upon him when he learns that the ring he has inherited from his cousin Bilbo is the One Ring that would enable the Dark Lord Sauron to dominate the whole of Middle-earth. Aragorn is the man born to be a hero, of a line of kings he emerges from the wilds and is uniformly bold and restrained. Tolkien's presentation of Heroism in The Lord of the Rings is based on medieval tradition, but modifies it, as there is no single hero but a combination of heroes with contrasting attributes. “Then I took that tape, its output to the VHS,” Woods laughed.Theme of heroism in J. “We went to the Miramax offices that night, back when Miramax was still a thing, and cut the scenes together,” Woods said. They shot two scenes for the audition in Griffith Park and one at Wood’s home. To get the part of Frodo right, Woods went to a dialect coach to perfect the Shire accent.
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He also asked a filmmaker friend to help him shoot the tape. But he decided to make one for his audition as Frodo Baggins. Wood had never made an audition tape before that and he noted that they weren’t a common practice then. Going an extra mile or should we say miles for the role Nervously thinking about the script, Wood knew he would have to do something more than simply reading for the part in a white room. “It really came to life off of the page.” “It was so palpable and lifelike,” Wood said. After reading, Wood said, he was “immersed in the world.”
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Since the movie producers were keeping the script under wraps, Wood sat in a casting director’s office by himself and read the script for two hours. The next step was preparing for the audition, but Wood’s agent told him that he would need to go to the casting office to read the script. As the reality of a possibly great opportunity presented itself in front of him, he took it. Wood had already read The Hobbit and was familiar with the middle-Earth fantasy that J.R.R. But then his agent called and suggested the same thing. “There’s so much in Heavenly Creatures that establishes what he’s capable of as filmmaker and marrying the notion of a fantasy realm with an emotional honesty and depth,” Wood said.Īfter a friend suggested that Wood go in to audition for Frodo, Wood laughed it off. A fan of his work, especially his renowned 1994 psychological drama Heavenly Creatures, Wood admitted he could see why that would work. When Wood first heard that Peter Jackson, the movie director, was making Lord of the Rings, Wood thought it was an “incredible” idea. Elijah Wood | Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival How did Elijah Wood hear about the movie and the role?
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Recently, in an interview with GQ, Wood revealed the lengths he went to, to get the historical part in the movie. One such role was of the ring-bearer himself, Frodo Baggins, played by Elijah Wood. The characters and the actors who played them in the movie left an unforgettable mark in cinema with their roles. The iconic trilogy set in dystopian middle-Earth, where the power of evil is growing and there’s only but a ring that can change the course of the future, still hasn’t lost its appeal amongst an ever-growing fan base. It has been 18 years since the last Lord of the Rings movie, The Return of the King debuted in theaters.