Blog Post #5

            Most of the youtube videos I found were parodies of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. One example took The Lord of the Rings culture and embedded it with BYU/Mormon culture. It is called “The Lord of the Engagement Ring,” making fun of the high marriage rates at BYU. It keeps the basic plot and characters of The Lord of the Rings, but adds Provo’s culture to it.

            There were a few videos that paid homage to the music from The Lord of the Rings movies. Many of these were of amateur performers playing/singing the music. A few (groups such as The Piano Guys and Lindsey Sterling) performed their own adaption of the music.

I suppose the way The Lord of the Rings culture is being changed in these videos is that the people who make them are trying to put of piece of themselves in it. They loved the story (or music) of The Lord of the Rings and wanted to be part of it. Many did this though humor as you can see in the Studio C parody “Gandalf Intervention.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3n-s6rT_6c