"The Lord Of The Rings" series was written by J.R.R Tolkien and has been around for many generations. ... The main one, which is the title of the series, is "The Lord Of The Rings". This is very significant to the story because Sauron, who is the main enemy, is the "Lord Of The Rings". ... The other title of the book is "The Fellowship Of The Ring". ... This first part of the story is titles "The Fellowship Of The Ring" because during the story a "fellowship", which is a selected group of nine, is formed to set out to destroy the Ruling Ring. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The novel The Lord of the Rings absolutely displays the process of the Quest as Frodo tries to destroy the ring in the mountains of Mordor. ... (Lord of the Rings-Gandolf 81) He must leave his safe and secure environment and venture off into the dangerous world of Middle Earth. ... This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and the councils of the Great-" (Lord of the Rings 355) This event ends the preliminary journeys of Frodo and the other hobbits. ... (Lord of the Rings 434) The rest of the fellowship is forced to carry on with...

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• Grade Level: High School

The fellowship was just forced to take a path that leads them to known evil in the Mines or Moria, and there they encounter an evil being who "takes Gandalf's life", hence adding an entertaining twist to the Lord of the Rings. Another entertaining element of the trilogy is when the fellowship first encounters the Black Riders. ... The Lord of the Rings trilogy is speckled with gripping passages like these that give a form of fantastic entertainment to those who read them. ... In the Lord of the Rings, we see Frodo numerous times fight within himself whether he is most fit to carry ...

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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...

• Word Count: 2060
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School