| dc.description.abstract | This final thesis seeks to undertake a literary comparative analysis of the book The
Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring (2004) by J. R. R. Tolkien and the screenplay
of the movie The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring (c2001) whose screenwriters
are Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson. Most studies on adaptation and literature
are about the book and the movie; however, it is important to highlight that the script is the
one being analyzed and compared in this thesis, even though the movie is mentioned and used
to complement the analysis and the final remarks. This work is organized in four chapters.
The first chapter is the introduction, which states the objectives of this project and its
importance. The second chapter – the theoretical background – is divided into two
subchapters. The first subchapter focusses on the theories of adaptation and presents several
lenses of adaptation which include Hutcheon (2006), Stam (2000a), Balázs (1953), Bazin
(1967), Andrew (1984), Bluestone (1961), Kraucauer (1960), Mitry (1971), and Leitch
(2007). The second one gives an overview of the script and explains how it was turned into a
screenplay. The third chapter is dedicated to the comparative analysis of the book and the
screenplay through its similarities and differences – more specifically, the similarities and the
differences regarding narrator, language, characters and characterization, plot, and poetic
insertions. The fourth chapter presents the final remarks arising from thesis which aligns with
the theories of Hutcheon (2006), Stam (2000a), Balázs (1953), Bluestone (1961) and Mitry
(1971) which portrays an adaptation as a new entity containing a kernel of truth (concerning
the main source). Furthermore, I encourage new studies in the literary and cinematic areas. | en |
