Picturing Tolkien

<p> This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of director Peter Jackson's spectacularly successful adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's <I>Lord of the Rings</I> trilogy: <I>The Fellowship of the Ring</I> (2001), <I>The Two Towers</I> (2002) and <I>The Return of the King</I> (2003). Part One of the collection, "Techniques of Structure and Story," compares and contrasts the organizational principles of the books and films.