The Fellowship of the Ring journeys through a world called Middle Earth. ... The heroic quest revolves around a symbol of power that brings evil and destruction to all whom possess it - The One Ring. This all-ruling ring was the greatest of nine created by the evil Lord Sauron, and was infused with his evil magic. The symbiotic relationship between the Dark Lord and his prized ring was broken after his defeat in battle, and the ring was lost. ... "We cannot use the Ruling Ring If any of the Wise should with this Ring overthrow the Lord of Mordor, using his own arts, he would then set himself o...

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He tells the story of the ring. ... Isildur's Bane is the ring. ... When he heard that the scouts of the dark lord were out, he sent the Dunedain looking for Gollum. ... These are the words that Sauron had put on the ring. ... Their rings may perish with the destruction of the ring. ...

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Introduction J.R.R Tolkein's fantasy world of Middle Earth, the setting for his The Lord of the Rings epic tale, seems to be much more than mere fantasy. ... Tolkein himself, within the Lord of the Rings foreword, discounts these events as having direct correlation to events that happened in reality. ... The Great War In the first sentence in the Foreword of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkein describes his book as "a history of the Great War of the Ring."" ... However, within the foreword of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkein directly conflicts that statement. Tolkein writes ...

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The symbols of these two opposing forces are seen as the Elven Rings, which symbolize good, and the One Ring, which is pure evil. ... Later in the Fellowship, down in the Mines of Moria, Gandalf lectured Frodo by showing him the righteousness of Bilbo's act of pity on Gollum, he stated, "Pity? ... In The Lord of the Rings Frodo was challenged with the destruction of the all-evil and corrupting rings of power. ... The end of The Lord of the Rings is almost the death of Frodo, but instead the death of the creature Gollum. ... Tolkien created The Lord of the Rings and its prologue out of...

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Though Gawain regularly interacts with characters, such as Lord Bertilak and his wife, and the Green Knight, his meetings are typically brief and shallow. ... There are many Christian symbols, which are entangled throughout the story. ... This fact combined with the religious symbols makes this seem very plausible. ... It is labeled a symbol of truth; the star has five points that interlock with each other, forming what is called the "endless knot.... This pentangle represents the five virtues in which Gawain aspires: perfection of his five senses, strength in his five fingers, devotion t...

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Tolkien's Archetypal Hero(s) When J.R.R Tolkien published the first book in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, in 1954 he broke ground and paved the way for fantasy all the way to the twenty-first century -- a century that still holds Tolkien's works on a glorious pedestal that stands far and above those in his shadow. ... The essence of Tolkien's trilogy can be found in this epitaph: Three rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne, In t...

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Instead of writing another novel, Tolkien created a trilogy, starting with The Fellowship of the Ring which was published in 1954. ... "The Lord of the Rings tells how Frodo, Bilbo's nephew, inherits Bilbo's magic invisible ring, and with it a great burden. The ring can make its owner Ruler of the World (as in Wagner's Ring Cycle) and so it must be destroyed before Sauron, Lord of the Rings, who made it, can find it again" (Yates). ... Both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have important factors contributed by WW I. ... As seen in Frodo's experience in The Lor...

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Immediately our Lord begins to put the background on the canvas. ... He didn't like it at home; he fell out with his father and lost fellowship with him. ... And so, on the black background of this boy's sin "down in the pigpen, out of fellowship with his father, having left home on a bad note, our Lord begins to brighten things up. ... In this story that our Lord told there was never any question as to whether the boy was a son or not. ... He began to remember what it was like being in fellowship with his father. ...

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In Bilbos" pocket, was Gollums' "precious", his lost magic ring which, he does not yet notice is gone. This ring in the end is what Bilbo needed, for his journey, although he did not know, would be needed when certain events actually occurred later (will be explained). ... -I think Tolkien, used wise characters such as Gandalf the wizard, and Elrond the Lord Elf, in some extent as to explain with ease, how to deal rationally, with difficult, challenging, or even strange situations, because they are such characters which deal with these situations without irrational doings. ...

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• Grade Level: High School