Frodo Baggins

The first one is The Hunger Games. The book follows Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old girl from District 12 who volunteers for the 74th Hunger games so that her sister does not have to participate. The hunger games is a death match between the children chosen from each district to participate. The Hunger Games is a great example of breaking common gender stereotypes as the main character is a strong and independent female character. Katniss does not rely on the usual stereotypical male character…

The long days and nights riding to Bree started molding into each other so I didn’t have the best idea about how long it has been. I looked up at the stormy night sky dark with clouds filled with rain and thunder that blocked out the light from the stars and the moon. Lightning could be seen in the distance zapping at the ground. I made my horse go faster so we could get to Bree sooner. It was about twenty miles away from where we were. After a loud clap of thunder shook the ground, rain started…

emotion, celebrate events, lament tragedies, and honor their heroes. Dwarves consistently used their music to celebrate wealth and great leaders, or describe impactful events. An example of this is when Thorin’s company stayed at the house of Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, and they “began to sing […] deep throated singing of the dwarves” (Tolkien Hobbit 14). During their song, Bilbo can clearly hear their “love of beautiful things made by hands” (Tolkien Hobbit 15). The dwarves preferred “fiddles,…

Name: ANG, Jose Mari P. Title of Film: Schindler’s list 1. Summarize the film. The film is about a German businessman named Oskar Schindler, who dreams of making it big in Poland. Although at first his goal was to make money, after witnessing the massacre of Jews by the Nazis his goal shifted to saving as many Jews as he can. Schindler continued to operate his owned factory as a means to protect and house the Jews under him, even bribing high ranking officials for his goals. The war ended…

The film industry has produced awesome movies and some of it are so epic viewers beg for a second and even a third installment. Of all the famous and best trilogies in the history of cinema, 10 of the best were listed below. 10. The Jason Bourne Trilogy ("The Bourne Identity", "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum") Former CIA assassin Jason Bourne played by Matt Damon amazed the viewers with action-packed scenes based on Robert Ludlum’s book series. Peter Greengrass directed…

was still prominent in Britain, and far from losing money, sales of his books exceeded the break-even point. Even if the “break even” point was only based on hardback cover sales. The story was consistent about a little man, or Hobbit, named Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo’s quest consisted of traveling to a place called the Lonely Mountain and help a band of dwarves defend their home. Although, The Hobbit, which was published in 1937, was regarded as a children's story, Tolkien would say the book wasn’t…

The widely accepted “The Hero’s Journey” theory is devised and arranged into stages by Joseph Campbell in 1947; Further, it was interpreted and adapted by Christopher Vogler, which can be illustrated through “Lord of The Rings” and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”. This is simple but powerful theory which eclipses these films and continues to captivate the audiences. Overtime, for both these films we see how the hero’s characters develop. They become more selfless and understand the…

In numerous interviews, author J. K. Rowling has explicitly stated that she is a Christian and implies that she wrote the Harry Potter Series as a Christian work. Not only can numerous elements of the plot can be interpreted to be allegorical to Christian teachings, but there are direct references to scripture throughout the series, especially in regards to death. Rowling focuses on many of the same Christian themes as J. R. R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, including…

named Bilbo Baggins who lived a simple and peaceful life until Gandalf (a wizard) showed up at his door step with a mission (Collins). This quest takes Bilbo alongside dwarves, goblins, elves, and a dragon on a journey over a land that is known as Middle-Earth. In 1954 Volumes 1 and 2 of The Lord of The Rings, the sequels of The Hobbit, were published and in 1955 Volume 3 was also released completing this series (Collins). The Lord of the Rings is the story of a man named Frodo Baggins, who in a…

In 2001, the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo allowed three sessions on Tolkien to be presented. That seminal event was the ‘nucleus’ from which this collection sprang. For forty years, editor Jane Chance, Professor Emerita in English of Rice University, has written and taught medieval literature, medieval culture, medieval women and modern medievalism. She has authored or edited five critical studies of Tolkien’s work, as well as numerous…