Frodo: The Power Of Hope

When faced with adversity good people use hope as a guide, compassion to rule themselves, and stand for what is right no matter the consequences. Faith for a better day, and the guidance of hope leads the fellowship to continue on in the fight against Sauron. When Frodo puts on the ring, he comes into perfect balance with the good and evil inside of him, and later Gandalf reveals it was him who guided Frodo from a higher place above to take off the ring giving Frodo hope to continue forward (484). When the Orcs surround Helms Deep, Theoden talks about how he feels that he is in a prison, and how he wishes he could die instead upon a field of glory, but instead he feels useless waiting for death to come to him (526). He questions what hope …show more content…
Gandalf shows this when he speaks of how evil is not the only thing capable of being dangerous. They all have the capacity to be corrupted by evil, but by knowing that part of themselves they can instead use it in the fight for good (488). Evil doesn’t have the ability to understand the nature of good, by being corrupted they become blinded to the ways of good. The thought that the fellowship might choose to go, and destroy the ring never crosses Sauron’s mind (486). When Frodo asks for Gollum’s help to guide them to the gates of Mordor, Gollum doesn’t comprehend that Frodo plans to destroy the ring, and willingly guides them (604-605). Gandalf shows kindness and compassion to Theoden as he tells Theoden to take courage, and step out of the shadows into the light, and Theoden now knows his darkness is able to step forward into the dawn of a new day (503). As Frodo approaches ever closer to Mordor, the ring becomes even more of a heavy burden to him (616), but he chooses to not let the ring defeat him, and accepts the responsibility of being a ring bearer no matter the consequences of what the ring may do to him (623). Gollum’s light/goodness is only a pale light compared to Frodo’s, in one moment Gollum’s light goes from being vivid, to being completely extinguished and replaced with a green pale light, never allowing the pale light to be relit again (699). Frodo …show more content…
It is a moment where each one enters their own abyss, coming out the other side being reborn, and cleansed with a new purpose. Boromir redeems himself when he stands before the Orcs fighting them to protect Merry and Pippin (403). His soul and the light within him returns as he makes one last stand in defiance of evil, and draws the Orcs to him smiting them as he blows the horn of Gondor. Treebeard reawakens the forest from their long sleep as he calls them to war not just for themselves, but for the peoples of Middle Earth (475). Faramir faces the decision of either choosing his loyalty to his father, or choosing to follow his heart. He chooses to protect and let Frodo go, and accepts Gondor’s laws of punishment and death for defying the steward his father (675). Frodo’s light emanates out from him as he stands in the dark, and faces Shelob. A subconscious voice emerges from him, and he steadily walks towards Shelob facing the darkness, and conquering his fear (705). Gandalf enters a physical abyss that represents an internal battle of good versus evil (490). As he falls through the pit, he smites his enemy, and wanders into a place where a higher being bestows knowledge upon him. He reawakens into the world being reborn, and clothed in white representing how he is a servant of good, and seeks to right the balance between good and evil (491). In order to conquer evil we not only have