Hobbit Movie Trip

I was doing some research on going to see the Hobbit. I was thinking a Sunday show at the Kabuki or AMC Van Ness or AMC Metreon. After, we could go to school or go to a cafe to discuss. I talked to Roni and it doesn't count as community service.
http://www.fandango.com/thehobbit:anunexpectedjourney_143302/movietimes?date=12/14/2012

Work Plan

I just realized that I never posted my work plan. J Cole-I adjusted to the second deadline per our discussion today. I also added a few deadlines for the fold out atlas idea.

The product of my keystone will be a series of at least five maps of Middle Earth which each highlight an aspect of the story through the location of objects, people or things within Tolkien’s world. Before I draw the maps I will re-read the books and create charts of all of the things that I am mapping. For example, a chart for the battles during the story would include the place of the battle, the time in the story, the parties involved and the outcome. The following is a list of map I wish to create in order of priority. Hopefully I can do all of them but the goal is to do at least the first five.

Maps

-general map of Middle Earth during The Lord of the Rings story

-map which charts acts of tikkun olam in the story

-map which tracks the journey of the ring

-map of the battles that take place during the story

-map which follows the journey of the Fellowship

-map of the Shire

-map of races of Middle Earth

My paper will be on the process of mapping a world that only appears in books and might not be on a round world or have a scale. I hope to do my service hours working at the SFPL of the Village Project or reading to kids who are in the library. My spiritual component will look at acts of tikkun olam in the story which I will also map. To bring my keystone back to JCHS, I hope to create an exhibit in the glass showcase outside of the library with my maps and other Lord of the Rings things like books, movies and illustrations. I am keeping a blog to track my progress. The link to my blog is http://lotrkeystone.blogspot.com/. I will work on the maps at home or in the art room. I will need paper and drawing supplies to draw my maps and access to the library display case for my exhibit. These deadline were created keeping in mind my involvement in the plays and holidays, journeys and breaks.

Task	Deadline
Finish the charts for my first five maps.	November 23, 2012
Finish research on maps of Middle Earth, look at maps in early editions of the books, additional maps that appear in other places. Learn who did them and how (if the information exists). Decide which elements I might want to include in my map.	December 14, 2012
Finish research on cartography. I must have information on general cartography and cartography of fantasy worlds. Decide which elements of the maps I look at in my research I might want to include in my maps.	December 14, 2012
Finalize the common elements for my maps like borders, keys, colors and textures.	December 21, 2012
Arrange my community service hours.	December 21, 2012
Finish the outline for my paper.	January 7, 2013
Finish the general map.	January 14, 2013
Draft the paper and submit it to my mentor for edits.	January 25, 2013
Submit a second draft of my paper to my mentor for edits.	February 8, 2013
Finish the non-map material for the fold-out atlas	April 19, 2013
Finish the tikkun olam map.	March 8, 2013
Finish the journey of the ring map.	March 22, 2013
Submit a final draft of my paper.	March 22, 2013
Finish the map of the battles.	April 5, 2013
Finish the map of the journey of the fellowship.	April 12, 2013
Scan maps and format the foldout atlas	April 19, 2013
Finish any extra maps.	April 26, 2013
Finish my library display.	April 26, 2013
Outline my presentation.	May 3, 2013
Finish all of my community service hours.	May 3, 2013
Have the final printed fold-out atlas	May 10, 2013
Finish my presentation plan/script/powerpoint.	May 10, 2013

Today's Meeting

Today I had a meeting with J Cole about my charts. He wanted me to expand on my Jewish Thought and battle charts to include smaller battles and acts. We discussed that the major battles or acts might have an illustration, while a minor skirmish or act could have a short caption  like, Orcs and Urak-hai fight and Merry and Pippin escape. We also talked about doing a Hobbit movie night with a discussion of the themes. Possibly for community service? If someone from the keystone team want to comment on the community service nature of a possible movie night, I would appreciate it. We also talked about printing a foldout atlas. The center would be the general map and then the flaps would be the other 4 maps. then on the reverse of the facing map there could be information about the map. So on the other side of the 5 flap there would be information about the 4 map. I should ask Maura to help me with it.

Some Thoughts

This weekend I was working on my charts at the table and complaining to my dad that the journey of the fellowship chart was taking forever. He said that it was because I had to have a lot of points to plot a line. It got me thinking about how people really move from point A to point B. I know when they come to a place but did they travel on a road or a river or wander through a forest? Did they walk in a strait line or a meandering line? In a forest, for example, one must always change direction to avoid trees. Just some thoughts.

My Charts

I finished my charts to help me map events and story-lines this weekend. It was tedious but it feels really good to post this!

Jewish Thought Map- “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” p. 50

Description of Act	Location	Page Number
Bilbo spares Gollum	Misty Mountains	H 80
The Eagles save Bilbo and the dwarves from the Wolves and the Goblins.	Eagle’s Eyrie	H 101
Beorn took in Bilbo and the Dwarves, advised them and gave them shelter.	The Home of Beorn	H 114
Thorin repents for his harsh words to Bilbo.	Dale	H 258
Frodo spares Gollum	Emyn Muil	TT 600
Boromir sacrifices himself for Merry and Pippin.	Emyn Muil	TT 434
Frodo saves Gollum from the Ithilien Rangers	Ithilien	TT 669
The Ring is destroyed	Mount Doom	ROTK 925

Journey of the Ring- “One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to find them all and in the darkness bind them” p. 49  

Location of the ring	Who has it	When	Page Number
Orodruin	Sauron	2nd 1600	ROTK 1058
Eriador	Sauron	2nd 1699	ROTK 1058
Numenor	Sauron	2nd 3262	ROTK 1058
Mordor	Sauron	2nd 3320	ROTK 1059
Orodruin	Isildur	2nd 3441	ROTK 1059 FOTR 51
Minas Anor	Isildur	3rd 2	ROTK 1060
Gladdon Fields	No one, falls into Anduin River	3rd 2	ROTK 1060 FOTR 51
Anduin Rivier	Deagol	3rd 2463	ROTK 1062 FOTR 52
Anduin Rivier	Smeagol/Gollum	3rd 2463	ROTK 1062 FOTR 52
Misty Mountains	Smeagol/Gollum	3rd 2470	ROTK 1062 FOTR 53
Misty Mountains	Bilbo	3rd 2941	ROTK 1064
Eagle’s Eyrie	Bilbo	3rd 2941	H 99
Home of Beorn	Bilbo		H 108
Elf Path	Bilbo		H 128
Captured by the spider	Bilbo		H 141
Elven King’s Halls	Bilbo		H 155
Lake Town/Esgaroth	Bilbo		H 174
Lonely Mountain by way of River Running	Bilbo		H 182
Beorn’s Home	Bilbo	3rd 2942	H 263
Rivendell	Bilbo	3rd 2942	H 265
Hobbiton	Bilbo	3rd 2942	H 270
Hobbiton	Frodo	3rd 3001	FOTR 35 ROTK 1065
Buckland	Frodo	Sep. 3rd 3018	FOTR 66 ROTK 1066
Home of Tom Bombadil	Frodo		FOTR 118
Barrow-Downs	Frodo		FOTR 137
Bree	Frodo		FOTR 148
Weathertop Hill by way of Midgewater Marshes	Frodo		FOTR 179
Rivendell	Frodo	Oct. 23 3rd 3018	FOTR 213
From here the journey of the ring mirrors the journey of Frodo and Sam. It is with Frodo until it is destroyed except for a brief time in Mordor when Sam and Frodo are separated.	During that time it is with Sam.

Battles- “This is the hour that we draw swords together.” TT 521

Name	Location of Battle	Parties Involved	Winner	Page Number
Battle of Five Armies	Dale	Goblins and Wolves vrs. Men, Dwarves, Eagles and Elves	Men, Dwarves, eagles and Elves	H 251 ROTK 1064
	Moria	Fellowship vrs. Orcs and a Troll and a Balrog	Fellowship but Gandalf is lost	FOTR 318-23
Battle of the Hornberg	Helm’s Deep	Rohan Legolas Gimli Aragon Gandolf vrs. Orcs, wild men and Urak-hai	Rohan	TT 520-9
Battle of Isengard	Isengard	Ents, Merry, Pippin vrs. Orcs Urak-hai and Saruman	Ents	TT 552-3
Battle of the Pelennor Fields	Minas Tirith	Gondor, Rohan, the Army of the Dead, Gandalf, Merry, Pippin, Legolas, Aragorn, Gimli vrs. Orcs, the Harad, Nazgul	Gondor	ROTK 803-39
Battle of the Black Gate	Black Gate	Gondor, Rohan, Gandalf, Merry, Pippin, Legolas, Aragorn, Gimli, Eagles vrs. Orcs	Gondor	ROTK 873-4

Journey of the Fellowship- “The road must be trod but it will we very hard. And neither strength wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them as they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.” p. 262

Member(s)	Location	Page Number
Fellowship is formed, all members	Rivendell	FOTR 268
All members	Ford of Bruin and then south on the west side of the Misty Mountains	FOTR 274
All members	The Pass of Caradhras	FOTR 279
All members	Mines of Moria	FOTR 295
All members	Along the river Celebrant into Lorian	FOTR 325
All members	Loth Lorian	FOTR 334
All members	Travels south on the River Anduin	FOTR 369
All members	Enters Emyn Muil	FOTR 376
All members	Sarn Gebir	FOTR 377
All members	Gates of Argonath	FOTR 383
All members	Amon Hen	FOTR 386
Frodo and Sam	Amon Lhaw	FOTR 398
Pippin Merry Aragorn Gimli and Legolas	The East Wall of Rohan on the west side of Emyn Muil	TT 413
Pippin Merry Aragorn Gimli and Legolas	Heading north-west	TT 417
Pippin Merry Aragorn Gimli and Legolas	Sees Fangorn and the last mountain of the Misty Mountains	TT 419
Pippin Merry Aragorn Gimli and Legolas	Border of the Entwash	TT 429
Pippin and Merry	Into Fangorn	TT 450
Pippin and Merry	The foot of the Last Mountain	TT 459
Pippin and Merry	The Entmoot	TT 468
Pippin and Merry	Isengard	TT 474
Legolas Aragorn and Gimli	Enter Fangorn	TT 479
Legolas Aragorn and Gimli	Follows Merry and Pippin’s Trail	TT 479
Legolas Aragorn and Gimli	Come to Treebeard’s Hill, Gandalf rejoins them	TT 480
Legolas Aragorn Gimli and Gandalf	Leaves Fangorn	TT 492
Legolas Aragorn Gimli and Gandalf	Due South	TT 493
Legolas Aragorn Gimli and Gandalf	Edoras	TT 496
Legolas Aragorn Gimli and Gandalf	Leaves Edoras for Helms Deep	TT 513
Legolas Aragorn and Gimli	Near the northern most arm of the White Mountains	TT 515
Legolas Aragorn and Gimli	Helm’s Deep	TT 518
Gandalf	Helm’s Deep	TT 529
Legolas Aragorn Gimli and Gandalf	Isengard	TT 532
Legolas Aragorn Gimli Merry Pippin and Gandalf	Dol Baran	TT 575
Pippin and Gandolf	Minas Tirith	TT 586
Frodo and Sam	Emyn Muil	TT 589
Frodo and Sam	Leave Emyn Muil towards the Dead Marshes	TT 606
Frodo and Sam	Northern border of the Dead Marshes	TT 611
Frodo and Sam	Leaves the Dead Marshes	TT 622
Frodo and Sam	Come to the Black Gate	TT 623
Frodo and Sam	Travel South towards Cirith Ungol	TT 634
Frodo and Sam	Traveled through Ithilien	TT 635
Frodo and Sam	Window of the Sunset	TT 659
Frodo and Sam	Southeast	TT 681
Frodo and Sam	Minas Morgul	TT 688
Frodo and Sam	Stairs of Cirith Ungol	TT 693
Sam	Decended into the Nameless Land	TT 716
Legolas Aragorn Gimli and Merry	Fords of Isen	ROTK 757
Legolas Aragorn Gimli and Merry	Helms Deep	ROTK 758
Legolas Aragorn Gimli and Merry	Edoras and then on to Dunharrow	ROTK 765
Legolas Aragorn and Gimli	the Path of the Dead	ROTK 768
Legolas Aragorn and Gimli	Morthond then to the Hill of Erech	ROTK 771
Legolas Aragorn and Gimli	Tarlang’s Neck then on to Lamedon	ROTK 772
Merry	Harrowdale	ROTK 774
Merry	Edoras	ROTK 786
Merry	Stonewain Valley	ROTK 816
Merry	Pelennor Fields	ROTK 821
Legolas Aragorn and Gimli	Pelennor Fields	ROTK 829
Merry	Minas Tirith	ROTK 841
Legolas Aragorn and Gimli	Minas Tirith	ROTK 843
Legolas Aragorn Gimli Merry Pippin and Gandalf	Eastward	ROTK 865
Legolas Aragorn Gimli Merry Pippin and Gandalf	Turn northward along the road	ROTK 867
Legolas Aragorn Gimli Merry Pippin and Gandalf	The Black Gate	ROTK 869
Frodo and Sam	Tower of Cirith Ungol	ROTK 878
Frodo and Sam	the path North	ROTK 898
Frodo and Sam	turn east	ROTK 900
Frodo and Sam	Mount Doom	ROTK 920