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What genre?
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Defining Fantasy

• Fantasy, a term used (in the context of
  childrens literature) to describe works of
  fiction, written by a specific author (i.e. not
  traditional) and usually novel-length, which
  involve the supernatural or some other unreal
  element.
• Good definition???
• Counterarguments
• not only children read the books of Harry Potter
  or Lord of the Rings
• quite vague terms unreal/supernatural
• no mentioning of film adaptation

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Good definition by Tolkien

• What really happens is that the story-maker
  proves a successful sub-creator. He makes a
  Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside
  it, what he relates is true it accords with
  the laws of that world. You therefore believe it,
  while you are, as it were, inside. The moment
  disbelief arises, the spell is broken the magic,
  or rather art, has failed.
• Can someone explain this in his own words?
• We will use Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of
  the Ring
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone as
  case-studies

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The authors Rowling and Tolkien
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Is this world totally different?
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Mimesis and Magic/ Realism vs. Fantasy

• Hogwarts Harrys school of wizardry has a Great
  Hall with
• normal christmas trees
• normal benches
• normal floors
• The shire and the rest of Middle-earth can be
  drawn into a normal map, has normal trees and
  rivers
• mimesis
• BUT The Great Hall seems to be having no roof and
  the Hobbits live in extraordinary looking houses
• magic

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Differences

• Lord of the Rings
• High Fantasy
• Closed world
• Epic genre
• Quest

• Harry Potter
• Contemporary Fantasy
• Open world
• Shift from one world to another with guide Hagrid
  
• !Movie excerpt (3 movie 1)
• Bildungsroman personal quest

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Fantasy vocabulary

• Plot a set of connected events that a story,
  film, etc. is based on
• Recurrence an occasion when something that has
  happened before, happens again
• Protagonist the most important character
• Antagonist Opponent
• Space all of the space in which everything
  exists, and in which everything has a position or
  direction.
• Mission something you feel you must do because
  it is your duty.
• Tension a situation in which different needs,
  forces, or influences pull in different
  directions and make the situation difficult.
• Closure/Resolution the act of finding a way to
  deal with a difficulty.

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Similarities

• Both movies/books have
• 1/ Recurrency Plot peace-chaos-peace
• 2/ Romantic Heroes more abilities than humans
  but no Gods
• 3/ Fantastical elements HPQuidditch, posions,
  ministry of wizardry, transfiguration,
• LOTR hobbits/Nazgul/orcs/eternal life/
• 4/ Included Subgenres seriesbooks, ghost-stories
  and horror (excerpt smeagol turns into Gollem
  3-6 3rd movie)
• 5/ Fantastic languages Sindarin, Quenya elves
  languages Entish (tree language)in LOTR /
  English-Latin magical lang. POTTER (vingardium
  leviosa)
• 6/ Foreshadowing of things to come

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Opposites attract?

• Good versus evil give your opinion
• While Good can imagine what it would look like
  to be Evil, Evil can not imagine what it would
  look like to be Good.
• The difference is actually not that clear
• !! Many characters are each others opposites
• Harry Potter for example has the same wand as
  Voldemort himself. See quoteMr. Ollivander It's
  curious that you should be destined for this wand
  when its brother gave you that scar.
• A lot of Tolkiens characters are also each
  others opposites the orcs are fallen elves /
  Gollem vs. Smeagol/

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Heroes

• LOTR hero(es)?
• Aragorn archetypal epic hero (he is obviously
  courageous and destined to become King)
• Frodo archetypal fairy-tale hero (unlikely doer
  of great deeds)
• Tolkien called Sam the chief hero do you agree?
• Consider this I cant carry the ring for you,
  but I can carry you
• Is Harry Potter the only hero in J.K. Rowlings
  tales?

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Understanding LOTR

• Watch trailer! (movie 1)
• Space idyllic Shire vs. Mordor exemplary of
  peace vs. Chaos
• Receiver (Frodo) learns about the problem of evil
  Dark Lord Sauron from Messenger (Gandalf)
• Mission/Object the ring must be destroyed
  (tension)
• Hero (protagonist) gets mission 1st Gandalf/ than
  Galadriel this task was appointed to youand the
  community appoints the most unlikely person
  imaginable
• I can not do this alone Helpers are needed
  (Aragorn/Gimli/Sam/Legolas/Gandalf/Galadriel)
• Opponents (antagonists) work against the hero
  (Sauron/Nazgul/Orks evil that does not sleep)
• Tension in space and characters Empathy for good
  cause the ring is trying to get back to its
  master
• At the end of the cycle the ring is destroyed
  mission completed reader wants Closure

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Understanding Harry Potter

1. Space England of all Muggles vs. Hogwarts
2. Hero (Harry) has two missions achieving true
   identity of wizard youre a wizard, Harry
   protecting magical world from evil Voldemort
   because he survived him the boy who lived
3. Mission keep the Philosophers Stone from
   Voldemort otherwise V. would revive
4. Helpers All Gryffindor kids(Ron,
   Hermione,..)/Prof. Dumbledore, Prof. Snape and
   Prof. McGonagall/ Hagrid/
5. Opponents Voldemort, the Malfoys, Prof.
   Quirell for supporting the Dark Arts AND the
   Dudleys not accepting his identity
6. Harry gets the stone wins the House Cup
   everything is restored to peace

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Fun, fun, fun

• www.dreuzels.com and www.harrypotterfreakz.com
  give you a lot of extra information on all things
  Potter.
• Test your Potter knowledge http//www.emse.fr/yu
  kna/harrypotter/Harryquiz.htm

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Sources

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Nar
  nia_(film_series)
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_In_Wonderland
• http//www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/lordo
  ftheringstrilogy/lessons
• Jackson, Peter, The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
• Columbus, Chris,Harry Potter and the
  Philosophers Stone.
• Rowling, J.K., Harry Potter and the Philosophers
  Stone.Bloomsbury, 1997.
• Verhaegen, Melissa, The story that lived.
  Onuitgegeven scriptie 2006.
• Keunen, Bart, Tijd voor een verhaal. Gent,
  Academia Press 2005, p.179.