THE CASTLE. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CASTLE IN FILM ADAPTATIONS
THE CASTLE. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CASTLE IN FILM ADAPTATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The Black castle vs the White castle (Mordor vs Minas Tirith, the novel and the film adaptation of the Lord of the Rings): the castle can be associated with a bipolar image, equally edenic and infernal. The road to the black castle outlined through the desolated imaged of the towers and the constructions from Mordor, a place of damnation, cannot be identified precisely, more than that, the movement through an acvatic place (the marshes or the swamps) having a role of demarcation from the other lands, which becomes practically impossible, because there is not a fixed line (bridge or foot-bridge) that should make accesible the traversal of this route. This is the prototype of the deserted castle, where there is no other possibility of freedom and where there are unhappy, captive human beings, who have lost their hope of being forgiven or set free.The white castle, represented in the same novel, through the image of the castle Minas Mirith, is exactly the opposite because it attracts and reflects the solar light, becoming thus a cronotop with beneficial functions.The tower of the castle, the world’s axis – Cair Paravel, the series The Chronicles of Narnia: both in the novel and in the film adaptations of the Lord of the Rings and also in the narnian land, there are edifices with a symbolic value, which include the motive of the tower (the one in Mordor, where the Big Eye is watching, represented by Sauron’s spirit or the towers from the castle Cair Paravel).

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