The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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    The Fellowship of the Ring Without a doubt, Lord of the Rings is one of the most successful movies to date. Adapting the famous books by J.R.R. Tolkien into film, possibly being responsible for the fantasy genre as it is today, and bringing us nine hours (or twelve if you have the extended versions) of one of the most memorable and enjoyable experiences that entertainment can give you. To start off the series, we begin with the Fellowship of the Ring. The story opens with Bilbo Baggins, a resident

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    With John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring as inspiration, an analysis is used to define to following: the idea of an evil ring to be symbolism for temptation and deadly addictions people suffer from, evidence to show the psychology and neuroscience behind what temptation is and how self-control correlates with it, and a few characters’ reaction to this ring and how the temptation of the Ring affects these characters. Tolkien was born January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa

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    Bilbo Baggins Quest

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    Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins The main protagonist of The Lord of the Rings, a Hobbit of exceptional character who lives in Shire and inherit the One Ring from his uncle Bilbo Baggins and undertakes the quest to destroy it in the fires of Mound Doom. Frodo Baggins is a round character because of his indecisive characteristic when he said that “I wish the ring had never come to me” but later on realized that it is his fate and he must do his quest for the sake of loved ones, shire and of all middle-earth

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    The One Ring to rule them all                      Thought-paper on J. R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings By Francis Byron P. Abao 97-06526 English 146 Inst. Emil Flores Department of English and Comparative Literature University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City. Submitted on October 14, 2002. The One Ring to rule them all      The Lord of the Rings

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    white animal which is use to ward off the Dementors – guardians of Azkaban. Harry Potter is a movie about wizards fighting off a dark lord called Voldemort. However, something similar was also in the movie field. It was call The Lord of the Ring. Lord of the Ring (LOTR) is about using the power of the ring to fight against an evil lord called Sauron. But the Ring is needed to be destroyed unlike Harry Potter, his job was to defeat Voldemort to bring peace to Hogwarts, the magic school. There are

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    The Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson is a trilogy series based off of the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is about Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), a hobbit, and his travels across the land to take a ring to a volcano. The purpose of his journey is to destroy the one ring that rules them all. The ring is very dangerous, and takes over anyone that wears it. At first, many people were with this hobbit on his journey. After a while, the hobbit and his neighbor, Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin), split off the

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    The Poignancy of Tolkien’s Four-Letter Word J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic novel The Lord of the Rings showcases his affinity for what is small and how its measure contradicts its significance. Tolkien crams undetected, potent potential into unlikely vessels—vessels that seemingly lack the capacity. The reader sees this in Tolkien’s protagonist and antagonist, the hobbit and ring respectively. The measure of each conflicts with its significance. With a closer look, the reader also sees this in Tolkien’s

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    The lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the ring by J.R.R Tolkien is a fiction novel that narrates the quest that Frodo along with some of his friends have to make in order to destroy a ring containing a lot of power of the evil Sauron. Along the way they come across new additions to the group and some evil forces trying to return the ring to its creator. The journey makes the members of the fellowship change, but especially the main character and new owner of the ring Frodo. In Middle Earth there

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    including The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit is one book about a well-defined adventure of one small set of characters, while The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of books that are much more complex and involve many more characters. Several key characters in The Hobbit including Bilbo, Gandalf, and Gollum are also found in The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit is about one hobbit aided by some dwarves, fairies, and one wizard going on an adventure to find treasure and one very important ring. The Lord of the Rings

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    The Lord Of The Rings

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    and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real ' world.” As The Lord Of The Rings is, by Tolkien’s definition, a fairy-story, it would be correct to assume that it, too, contains “elements of moral and religious truth.” However, many who read Lord Of The Rings dispute the trilogy’s religious content. Tolkien states, "The Lord Of The Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work… That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically

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