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A quick analysis of the dialogue of The Lord of the Rings movies

I wanted to learn a new framework for visualising data and I love the Lord of the Rings movies. Here's what I found combining the two together.

Through a web scraping and pulling the data from the film scripts I processed the words of the rings in three ways.

Total Word Count

The first thing I looked at was the total word count per film. We can see below that The Two Towers has a real 'middle movie' vibe with the most words said to pull the three stories together.

Tonal Analysis

I utilised the brains of IBM's Watson to process each line said by our nine fellowship members. Any lines in which tone could be extracted I then rendered in this here graph.

As you could expect, Gandalf says the most lines across all three films and his words convey the most emotion.

Surprisingly, Boromir says more in Fellowship of the Ring than Legolas does throughout all three films.

Unsurprisingly, Boromir's words primarily convey two emotions Sean Bean does well: Joy and Sadness.

Speaking of the Ring

I then spent some time pulling out each mention of the ring by our nine fellowship members.

Below we can see a render of this data where the size of the circle if the length of the line and the colour is the character speaking.

Hover over each line to see the quote below.

References

I could not have achieved this without the following: