Editing Arwen (section)

==Adaptations==

=== Peter Jackson's film series ===

[[File:LivTylerLOTR03.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Liv Tyler]] plays Arwen in [[Peter Jackson]]'s [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy]]. ]]

In [[Peter Jackson]]'s [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy]], Arwen is played by [[Liv Tyler]]. The films give her a more prominent role than her literary counterpart.<ref name="page 2">{{cite web |url=http://www.people.com/people/liv_tyler/biography/0,,20170146_10,00.html |title=Liv Tyler Biography |page=2 |access-date=23 June 2008 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703044546/http://www.people.com/people/liv_tyler/biography/0,,20170146_10,00.html |archive-date=3 July 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,188155~1~0~whyringsfansshould,00.html |title=Liv and Let Liv |last=Burr |first=Ty |date=12 December 2001 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |access-date=8 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201150758/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,188155~1~0~whyringsfansshould,00.html |archive-date=1 February 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Shippey 2005"/> 
In the first film, Arwen searches for Aragorn and single-handedly rescues [[Frodo Baggins]] from the [[Black Riders]] at [[Bruinen]], thwarting them with a sudden flood, summoned by an incantation.<ref name="Shippey 2005"/><ref name="Derdzinski 2002"/> During this flight, Arwen wields the sword [[Hadhafang]], which according to film merchandise was once wielded by her father and had belonged to his grandmother [[Idril Celebrindal]].<ref name="Derdzinski 2002">{{cite web |url=http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie_inscriptions.htm#arwensword |title=Language in the Lord of the Rings movie  |editor-first=Ryszard  |editor-last=Derdzinski |year=2002 |access-date=2 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020811162003/http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie_inscriptions.htm |archive-date=11 August 2002 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In the film adaptation of ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers|The Two Towers]]'', the injured Aragorn is revived by a dream or vision of Arwen, who kisses him and asks the [[Valar]] to protect him.<ref name="Shippey 2005">{{cite book |last=Shippey |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Shippey |title=[[The Road to Middle-Earth]] |date=2005 |edition=Third |orig-year=1982 |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |isbn=978-0261102750 |pages=413, 418–419}}</ref>

In the film, Arwen does not send Aragorn the banner she has made; instead, Elrond takes the sword Narsil, reforged as [[Andúril]], to Aragorn at [[Dunharrow]], and tells him that Arwen's fate has become bound to the [[One Ring]], and that she is dying. The Tolkien scholar [[Janet Brennan Croft]] comments that Jackson makes Arwen passive, denying her independence of mind; from being a constant support, she is a distraction, even a temptation, to Aragorn, whom Croft likens to "the American Superhero", and their marriage, in the book a sign of his rightful kingship, is in the film something he accepts as if he was condemned to it.<ref name="Croft 2011">{{cite book |last=Croft |first=Janet Brennan |author-link=Janet Brennan Croft |chapter=Jackson's Aragorn and the American Superhero |editor1-last=Bogstad |editor1-first=Janice M. |editor2-last=Kaveny |editor2-first=Philip E. |title=[[Picturing Tolkien]] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNjKrXRP0G8C&pg=PA219 |year=2011 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8473-7 |pages=219–220}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Thompson |first=Kristin |chapter=Gollum Talks to himself |editor1-last=Bogstad |editor1-first=Janice M. |editor2-last=Kaveny |editor2-first=Philip E. |title=[[Picturing Tolkien]] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNjKrXRP0G8C&pg=PA41 |year=2011 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8473-7 |page=41}}</ref>

[[File:John Duncan (1911) Riders of the Sidhe.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|The film scene "Arwen's vision" borrows visually from ''Riders of the Sidhe'' by [[John Duncan (painter)|John Duncan]], 1911.<ref name="Fimi 2011"/>]]

In the extended version, Elrond asks Arwen, in Elvish with English subtitles, to accompany him to safety in [[Valinor]], away from Middle-earth.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ford |first1=Judy Ann |last2=Reid |first2=Robin Anne |author2-link=Robin Anne Reid |chapter=Into the West |editor1-last=Bogstad |editor1-first=Janice M. |editor2-last=Kaveny |editor2-first=Philip E. |title=[[Picturing Tolkien]] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNjKrXRP0G8C&pg=PA174 |year=2011 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8473-7 |page=174}}</ref>

The Tolkien scholar [[Dimitra Fimi]] comments that the procession of Elves in the scene "Arwen's vision" in the extended version borrows visually from the "Celtic" imagery of [[John Duncan (painter)|John Duncan]]'s 1911 [[Pre-Raphaelite]] painting ''Riders of the Sidhe''.<ref name="Fimi 2011">{{cite book |last=Fimi |first=Dimitra |author-link=Dimitra Fimi |chapter=Filming Folklore |editor1-last=Bogstad |editor1-first=Janice M. |editor2-last=Kaveny |editor2-first=Philip E. |title=[[Picturing Tolkien]] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNjKrXRP0G8C&pg=PA90 |year=2011 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8473-7 |page=90}}</ref> 
<!--In scene 60 of ROTK, -->Sauron uses the [[Palantír]] to show Aragorn a dying Arwen (a scene from the future) in the hope of weakening his resolve.<ref name="Croft 2011"/>

The films portray Arwen as becoming human through her love for Aragorn; as in the novel, she follows the choice of her ancestor Lúthien to become a mortal woman for the love of a mortal man.<ref name="Shippey 2005"/><ref name="Enright 2007"/> The films introduce a jewelled pendant called the ''Evenstar'' which Arwen gives to Aragorn as a token of their love. A similar pendant appears in [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s short story ''The Jewel of Arwen'', although in that story Arwen gives it to "the Ring-Bearer" rather than to Aragorn.{{efn|This story appears in all the fantasy trilogies in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?5357 the ISFDB list].}} In Tolkien's novel, Arwen gives Frodo "a white gem like a star...hanging upon a silver chain" before he leaves Minas Tirith, saying, "When the memory of the fear and the darkness troubles you...this will bring you aid".<ref group=T name="Many Partings"/>

In earlier versions of the script, Arwen fought in the [[Battle of the Hornburg|Battle of Helm's Deep]] and brought the sword Andúril to Aragorn. Some scenes of Arwen fighting in Helm's Deep were filmed before both the film's writers (with Liv Tyler's approval) reconsidered the change and deleted her from the sequence.<ref>[[Peter Jackson]]. (2005). ''The Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers - Extended Edition Appendices'' [DVD].</ref> The critic [[John D. Rateliff]] wrote approvingly of the deletion of what he calls "Arwen, [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Warrior Princess]]", even though it came "at the cost of reducing her to a sort of [[The Lady of Shalott|Lady of Shallott]] languishing for most of the final two films".<ref>{{cite book |last=Rateliff |first=John D. |author-link=John D. Rateliff |chapter=Two Kinds of Absence |editor1-last=Bogstad |editor1-first=Janice M. |editor2-last=Kaveny |editor2-first=Philip E. |title=Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNjKrXRP0G8C&pg=PA65 |year=2011 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8473-7 |pages=65–66}}</ref>

In the [[Mythopoeic Society]]'s  ''[[Tolkien on Film|Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings]]'', Cathy Akers-Jordan, Victoria Gaydosik, [[Jane Chance]], and Maureen Thum all contend that the portrayal of Arwen and other women in the Jackson films is thematically faithful to or compatible with Tolkien's writings, despite the differences.<ref name="akers-jordan">{{cite book |last=Akers-Jordan |first=Cathy |chapter=Fairy Princess or Tragic Heroine? The Metamorphosis of Arwen Undomiel in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Films |title=Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings |title-link=Tolkien on Film |editor-last=Croft |editor-first=Janet Brennan |editor-link=Janet Brennan Croft |publisher=[[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Press]] |date=2005 |isbn=1-887726-09-8}}</ref><ref name="chance">{{cite book |last=Chance |first=Jane |author-link=Jane Chance |chapter=Tolkien's Women (and Men): The Films and the Books |title=Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings |title-link=Tolkien on Film |editor-last=Croft |editor-first=Janet Brennan |editor-link=Janet Brennan Croft |publisher=[[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Press]] |date=2005 |isbn=1-887726-09-8}}</ref><ref name="gaydosik">{{cite book |last=Gaydosik |first=Victoria |chapter=The Transformation of Tolkien's Arwen and the Abandonment of the Psyche Archetype: The Lord of the Rings on the Page and on the Screen |title=Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings |title-link=Tolkien on Film |editor-last=Croft |editor-first=Janet Brennan |editor-link=Janet Brennan Croft |publisher=[[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Press]] |location=East Lansing, Michigan |date=2005 |isbn=1-887726-09-8}}</ref><ref name="thum">{{cite book |last=Thum |first=Maureen |chapter=The 'Sub-Subcreation' of Galadriel, Arwen, and Éowyn: Tolkien's Women and The Lord of the Rings |title=Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings |title-link=Tolkien on Film |editor-last=Croft |editor-first=Janet Brennan |editor-link=Janet Brennan Croft |publisher=[[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Press]] |date=2005 |isbn=1-887726-09-8}}</ref>

=== Other ===
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Arwen does not appear in [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s 1978 adaptation of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) |The Lord of the Rings]]'', nor in the 1980 [[Rankin-Bass]] adaptation of ''[[The Return of the King (1980 film) |The Return of the King]]''.-->

In the [[The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)|1981 BBC radio serialisation of ''The Lord of the Rings'']], Arwen is voiced by Sonia Fraser.<ref>{{cite web |title=Riel Radio Theatre — The Lord of the Rings, Episode 2 |url=https://radioriel.org/content/daily-programme/riel-radio-theatre-the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-2/ |publisher=Radioriel |access-date=18 May 2020 |date=15 January 2009 |archive-date=15 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200115144511/https://www.radioriel.org/content/daily-programme/riel-radio-theatre-the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the [[Lord of the Rings (theatre)|musical theatre adaptation of ''Lord of the Rings'']], Arwen, played in London in 2007 by [[Rosalie Craig]], sings the Prologue, and three musical numbers: "The Song of Hope", "Star of Eärendil" (with the Elven chorus) and "The Song of Hope Duet" (with Aragorn).<ref>{{cite web |title=The Lord of the Rings |url=https://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_l/lordoftherings.html |website=The Guide to Musical Theatre |access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lord of the Rings cast confirmed! |url=https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/lord-of-the-rings-cast-confirmed |website=London Theatre |access-date=19 July 2020 |date=15 January 2007}}</ref> In the 2009 [[fan film]] ''[[The Hunt for Gollum]]'', Arwen is played by [[Rita Ramnani]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Hunt for Gollum |url=http://film-directory.britishcouncil.org/the-hunt-for-gollum |publisher=[[British Council]] |access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Hunt for Gollum, kortfilm fra 2009 |url=https://filmfront.no/utgivelse/26599/the-hunt-for-gollum |website=FilmFront |access-date=19 July 2020}}</ref>

The [[Lord of the Rings (board game)|''Lord of the Rings'' board game]] made use of a rendition of Arwen by Jackson's conceptual designer, the illustrator [[John Howe (illustrator)|John Howe]]; the work was inspired by the French actress [[Isabelle Adjani]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Howe |first=John |author-link=John Howe (illustrator) |url=http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/details.php?image_id=112 |title=Arwen |work=Illustrator John Howe |date=9 September 2011 |access-date=18 September 2012}}</ref>