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Click here to read part 4. The Return of the King (1980, Directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass) While the Rankin-Bass adaptation of The Hobbit has its moments, the Rankin-Bass adaptation of Return…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous section. The Grand Inquisitor thinks that what matters is earthly happiness, but that Christ’s message does not bring happiness to this world. This…
Click here to read part 3. Lord of the Rings (1978, directed by Ralph Bakshi) Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings is interesting, influential, but not entirely successful. Time Out included it as a qualified entry…
By Thomas J. McIntyre John Ronald Ruel (hereafter referred to as J.R.R.) Tolkien, author of the epic Lord of the Rings saga, was a devout Catholic. He passed to his eternal reward in 1973, almost four…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. Each of Dostoevsky’s final five novels is long. They are long in terms of the number of pages, but not only long…
Click here to read part 2. The Hobbit (1977, Directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass) Created by the team who went on to produce fantasy film The Last Unicorn, and also known for…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. I first read Dostoevsky’s Demons (AKA The Possessed) in English and didn’t much like it. If I had not later learned Russian,…
Click here to read Part 1. Lord of the Rings (1971, directed by Bo Hansson) The miniseries Sagan om Ringen consists of two fourteen-minute episodes that appeared on Swedish TV channel SVT1. A narrator talks…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. In Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov gets into a discussion with Porfiry, the police investigator, about an article Raskolnikov wrote for a…
The release of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy changed how viewers and critics see fantasy films. While fans will keep debating the merits of his later Hobbit trilogy, his first trilogy continues to…
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