[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

What This Visualization Shows

This data visualization displays "[OC] My adaptation graph for The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)" and provides a clear visual representation of the underlying data patterns and trends. The visualization focuses on This is a graph of direct connections between the book and movie adaptation of *The Fellowship of the Ring*, including dialog and visual descriptions. To make it I went through [the movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/) (extended version) [and book](https://www.tolkienbooks.us/lotr/us/mmpb/bb2007/the-fellowship-of-the-ring-2007) together, looking for text or visuals that showed up in both. I also used an ebook version of the book to provide full-text search and [some websites](http://www.ageofthering.com/atthemovies/scripts/fellowshipofthering5to8.php) by [LOTR fans](https://www.squidge.org/~praxisters/fellowship/fic/fotrscript.htm) that [had transcribed](https://www.tk421.net/lotr/film/fotr/14.html) the movie. This isn't a fully exhaustive list, but I tried to include at least one entry per page so there wouldn't be gaps in the graph. There's also an interactive version of the graph here:

<https://bariumbitmap.github.io/lotr-adaptation-graphs/>

The resulting graph shows what a remarkable adaptation the movie is, and how it manages to distill a book [with over 187,000 words](http://lotrproject.com/statistics/books/wordscount) into 200 minutes of screen time while still keeping the vast majority of the story. Yes, [Tom Bombadil](https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/1fz6uwv/why_did_the_lord_of_the_rings_movie_wholly_cut/) was [cut](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/71893/did-leaving-out-tom-bombadil-create-any-plot-holes-in-the-fellowship-of-the-ring) and [Glorfindel replaced](https://www.reddit.com/r/lordoftherings/comments/97baki/does_anyone_why_they_changed_glorfindel_for_arwen/) [with](https://thetolkien.forum/threads/why-did-the-film-show-arwen-instead-of-glorfindel.3904/) [Arwen](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/187829/why-did-peter-jackson-replace-glorfindels-role-with-arwen) but these are relatively minor changes for a book of this length. For comparison, the [audiobook version](https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-Audiobook/1705047572) of *Fellowship* is 22.5 hours long (the longest in the trilogy), whereas the credits roll in the movie at less than 3.5 hours, which is nearly seven times shorter. And the movie contains most of "The Departure of Boromir", which is the first chapter of the book version of *The Two Towers*! It's a remarkable feat of adaptation for a book that [was long](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/181ige/til_stanley_kubrick_was_asked_to_direct_lord_of/) [considered](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmKKK35bXQg) [impossible](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfT99aC-PxM) [to make](https://www.quora.com/Why-did-people-say-Lord-of-the-Rings-was-unfilmable-before-the-Peter-Jackson-movies) into a live-action film.

You can check out the GitHub repo here:

<https://github.com/bariumbitmap/lotr-adaptation-graphs>

I used [pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org/) and [matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/) for the static scatterplot and [plotly](https://plotly.com/python/) for the interactive scatterplot. Some of the arrows for the annotations were positioned a bit awkwardly in the matplotlib graph so I tweaked them with [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/). (To be clear, I only tweaked the arrows, not any of the actual data points.), which allows us to understand complex relationships and insights within the data through visual storytelling.

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