TY  - JOUR
A1  - Matz, Alicia
A1  - Paprocki, Maciej
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
ED  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
ED  - Rollinger, Christian
ED  - Walde, Christine
T1  - There and Back Again: Tolkien and Greco-Roman Antiquity
JF  - thersites 15
N2  - The following introduction sketches the status questionis of the research on the influence of Greco-Roman antiquity on the works of Tolkien and provides details about the volume’s theoretical impetus and its broad themes. The editors discuss Tolkien’s complicated and indirect relationship with classical models, underscoring certain emergent themes in volume’s contributions, such as decline, multifocal reception and relationship with nature.
KW  - Tolkien
KW  - classical reception
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.228
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2022
IS  - 15
SP  - i
EP  - xii
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Keen, Tony
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
ED  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
ED  - Rollinger, Christian
ED  - Walde, Christine
T1  - Legolas in Troy
BT  - The influence of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies on cinematic portrayals of ancient Greece and Rome
JF  - thersites 15
N2  - The Lord of the Rings movies were a cinematic phenomenon, extremely popular. They are not often considered as works of Classical Reception. These films’ influence on subsequent ancient world movies has been understudied, and undervalued. A common model of cinematic Greece and Rome in the twenty-first century looks solely back to Gladiator. Undoubtedly Gladiator, and its commercial success, is important to how ancient world movies developed; but focussing solely on Gladiator does not explain a move away from Roman history towards Greek mythology, culminating in a flurry of movies about Greek mythological heroes. Lord of the Rings is an overlooked factor. Already in Troy two LOTR stars are in key roles, and the battle scenes seek to imitate those of Jackson’s trilogy. 300 mythologizes far beyond Frank Miller’s graphic novel, adding several monsters; LOTR’s influence is at play here. LOTR’s influence was one factor in a complex process that saw ancient world movies change in the twentyfirst century. LOTR fed into an atmosphere that moved ancient world movies towards Greece, away from Rome, through promoting the appeal of a combination of epic and the fantastic.
KW  - classical movies
KW  - Lord of the Rings
KW  - classical reception
KW  - Peter Jackson
KW  - fantasy movies
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.223
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2022
IS  - 15
SP  - 285
EP  - 313
ER  -