Livre pour enfant, Saga cinématographique et
désormais Romance en ligne : la curieuse histoire du Hobbit
Children’s Book, Cinematographic Saga and Now Online
Romance: The Curious Story of The Hobbit
Author(s): Marie DI BENEDETTOSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: Tolkien; The Hobbit; heroic fantasy; movie adaptation; fan fiction; Slash;
Summary/Abstract: In less than a century of existence, The Hobbit has changed considerably. At first a charming story told by a father to his children, it has become, thanks to its author, the first volume in a world of heroic fantasy, a pioneer of a literary genre. When film director Peter Jackson takes a hold of it in 2012, the story already differs greatly from the original, growing into a cinematic saga trying to equal the success of its “big sister”, movie trilogy The Lord of the Rings, also directed by Peter Jackson. But this pales in comparison to the changes that fanfiction authors will compose, with, to date, some 33.000 stories about The Hobbit, in only one fanfiction archive website. The fans bring with them their codes and language(s), and it is mostly through the Romance between Bilbo and Thorin that The Hobbit is perpetually reinvented, each author reinterpreting Tolkien’s novel.
Journal: Acta Iassyensia Comparationis
- Issue Year: 2/2020
- Issue No: 26
- Page Range: 179-187
- Page Count: 9
- Language: French