One Ring

Hobbits. They are interestingly boring little creatures who are known for living peaceful uneventful lives; however, one fateful day one little hobbit defied the odds. In The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, no matter how small a person may be, they can accomplish anything they put their mind to. Bilbo Baggins accomplished this by slaying terrifying spiders, outwitting the sneaky Gollum and escaping the wise wood elves. All of this to defeat the dragon Smaug and recover the things that once belonged…

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is about a young hobbit named Frodo Baggins that must destroy the One Ring by throwing it into the fiery pit of Mount Doom in order to stop the Dark Lord Sauron from shrouding the world in darkness. The Hero’s Journey is an archetype that is used commonly in movies, books, and television shows in order to show the development of the main hero. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring follows Frodo Baggins as he develops as a character…

Bilbo Baggins, the protagonist, grew and developed a great deal spiritually throughout his adventures. He changes from an insecure hobbit who avoids adventures to a brave hobbit who finds courage, from a foolish hobbit who is careless to an observant one who is conscious of surroundings, and from an useless member to becoming a leader and taking over. These new characteristics Bilbo develops shows the change from his weak side to the strong side throughout The Hobbit. Bilbo transmutes from…

to me at once! You can’t have it!’” (Tolkien 890) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is a fantasy trilogy that has set the bar for all others of the genre. It follows a young hobbit named Frodo as he, and his companions, struggle to destroy an evil ring capable of the world’s end. Frodo Baggins is the humblest of creatures, yet even he is susceptible to the temptations of pure evil through the ring of power; this is proven through the character transformation Frodo undergoes…

The book The Fellowship of the Ring begins with a quiet life of the Hobbits in The Shire. When Frodo Baggins comes into the possession of the One Ring, left for him by his cousin Bilbo Baggins, he and three of his friends set out to destroy the ring because of its dangerous power. Soon after, they get lost and almost die. Frodo is gravely injured and needed to be healed by the Rivendell Elves. In Rivendell, a council is formed and it is decided that a group including a wizard, an Elf, Dwarves,…

One of the many tools that Bilbo recovers from his quest is the ring. After the battle with the goblins where Bilbo is left unconscious, he discovers a ring (Tolkien, Ch. V, 65). The ring, which turns him invisible once he puts it on, teaches him how to use magic, or the fantastic, correctly. The first time that Bilbo uses the ring is to escape Gollum in the goblin’s cave (Tolkien, Ch. V, 79). At this time Bilbo did not understand what was happening to him and what powers the ring possessed…

like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel” (Tolkien 68). In the paperback Bilbo receives the ring by crawling on the floor and randomly finding it. He found it innocently, and didn’t know the ring was Gollum’s. So it wasn’t his fault for finding the ring and asking Gollum what was in his pocket. Technically he didn’t steal it, he found it. Tolkien's whole point for this, was for Bilbo to be innocent and be surprised when Gollum gets mad at Bilbo for “stealing” the ring. On…

Boromir was following close behind. He wanted to bring the ring to his home in Minas Tirith, and use the ring as a weapon against Sauron. When I refused, he flew into an anger and tried to take the ring from me. It was clear to me that the ring had possessed his mind, as he shouted that I would “take the ring to Sauron” (521), and accusing me of betraying them…

he stole the ring when they made it to rivendell and when bilbo saved them from the goblins. The first great obstacle Bilbo and the dwarves overcome is the Misty Mountains. As is the case throughout their journey, the farther from home they travel, the greater the danger. The very name of "the Wild" provides a symbolic contrast with what is familiar, tame, and domestic, and the deserted terrain represents the difficulties they begin to face so far from home. They have one last…

The fall a) The hero experiences some kind of downfall or fallback b) In the Hobbit one major setback is when the Trolls capture the dwarves and the horses disappear, making there journey a little longer than it should be. c) A secondary example is in Cinderella, Cinderella plans to go to the ball so she makes a dress but the evil step…