| From Classbrain.com's Language Arts Character & Society in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien, in his "Lord of the Rings", has done more than anyone else in history to bring the worlds of elves, dwarves, and hobbits to our modern awareness. Every child is familiar with Santa's elves and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, but it is Tolkien who has given them breadth and scope with a long history and an entire world in which to amaze and delight us. Tolkein’s descriptions of the world of Middle Earth is complete with detailed societies, languages, geography, and more. Through this lesson plan your students will explore how to create a Middle Earth character and how to describe where that character comes from.
Project One: Having seen the movie and perhaps having read the book, take what you know of Hobbits, Dwarves, and Elves, and create your own character. What does he or she look like? What type of clothing is worn, and so on. What would make this character unique? Middle Earth Character Worksheet Project Two: In The Fellowship of the Rings: Elves are wise, graceful, merry, ethereal, and wistful all at once. Dwarves are portrayed as dour, industrious, stolid and grim. Hobbits are carefree, food and fun loving, with more to them that one might at first suppose. Choose a character from the movie “Lord of the Rings” and/or the book, then using the Middle Earth Society Worksheet describe the your character’s life and surroundings. Project Three: Draw the character that you’ve designed in Project One using our Middle Earth Character Worksheet – Art
Movies The Fellowship of the Ring
Middle Earth Character Worksheet Middle Earth Character Worksheet – Art Middle Earth Society Worksheet
In ancient times, the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his eleventy-first birthday, Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young nephew, Frodo, the Ruling Ring, and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-Earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. Summary written by The Tolkien Society
The Lord of the Rings – the Official Website The official website for this incredible film rendition of Tolkien’s trilogy has many wonderful interviews, trailers, and tidbits for you to explore. Source: The Lord of the Rings Official Website The Differences Between Hobbits and Humans This interview with Billy Boyd (Pippin) leads you through some of the basic differences between the two races. Source: The Lord of the Rings Official Website Map of Middle Earth This exceptional interactive map let’s you explore the countryside in Tolkien’s Middle Earth. Choose a town for your character project here and watch a short documentary on how and why they chose the location they did for the film. You will also find information on the various characters and races of Middle earth here. Not to be missed! Source: The Lord of the Rings Official Website The Encyclopedia of Arda The Encyclopedia of Arda is a personal project - a tribute to and a celebration of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The site is intended to evolve into an illustrated hypertext encyclopedia of Tolkien's realms and peoples. This site is a pleasure to navigate and is wonderfully full of information, not only on the individual characters of the books, but also of the languages and races. This site is a must if you are working on any of the character worksheets! Source: Mark Fisher The Hobbit Name Generator Change your name or those of your friends into Hobbit names. This is good to use when you’re creating a character with the character Worksheet, if your character is a hobbit of course. Source: Chris Wetherell Fellowship of the Wordsmiths This site covers the elvish language and calligraphy. There are many beautiful calligraphic examples that you can download. Additionally there are essays and discussions on the structure of the language. Source: Ryszard I. Derdzinski (Galadhorn Elvellon) Tolkien Online This fan site has a little bit of everything. Of special note are their interviews and links to photos of the sets and actors during the filming of the trilogy. There is a lot of depth here. Source: Tolkien Online - The One Ring Drawing Tolkien Eugenia Weinstein’s put together this website to showcase a few of her illustrations for the epic trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Source: Eugenia Weinstein Fellowship of the Ring Personality Test Take this fun test to find your Lord of the Rings alter ego. Source: Matt’s Movie Sounds © Copyright 2003 by ClassBrain.com |
