Sauron

Think about any time that a television show runs, and the scene changes. This idea can become greatly compared with The Hobbit. The story moves on to a different part almost without warning. Even though it moves quickly, the story still manages to connect with a hero’s journey. Throughout The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien uses a hero’s journey to show the different stages, the departure, the initiation, and the return. In chapter one, this quote greatly represents the departure: “Let's have no more…

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…

Chapter 1 opens as the wizard Gandalf visits the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and invites him to join in an adventure. Bilbo declines, reluctant to leave the safety and comfort of his hobbit-hole. The next day, he is visited by dwarves who believe Bilbo can be of use to them in their journey to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim their ancestral treasure, now in the possession of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo realizes that Gandalf had represented him to the dwarves as a burglar. He reluctantly agrees to go, but he…

The story of the Hobbit, and bilbo baggins.It stats with the jeoney and were he is now and how he had got to safety with all his new friends. The small dwarf was in his small hobbit hole and not a nasty one, no it was a warm and dry hole that was safe and homey. But one day it wasn't as quiet and peaceful as he liked it no there was a lot of noises and many more dwarves and on wizard.And they all had him on a long advanstar were it lead Bilbo to where now with all the wizard and dwarves,…

"You will NEVER be able to reclaim that mountain, stupid dwarf!" The elf fumed, his eyes glistening with malice as he clutched the armrests of his throne in anger. "What are you even thinking? Marching into Erebor with a handful of over-the-hill dwarfs and mere tod-dlers to face Smaug? I will not allow for your stubbornness to re-awake that dragon to bring death and destruction over all Arda! If you don't give in, you and your people shall rot in my dungeon. Your case is lost, dwarf!" "And so…

fall of Melkor, they retreated back to their caves, for they are directionless and helpless without a leader. With the eventual rise of Sauron, Melkor’s most trusted servant, the Orcs became the main host of Sauron’s powers. The Orcs become the muscle of the battles between the light and the dark, for they are of insignificant loss. In addition to the Orcs, Sauron also commands the powers of the Nazgûls. Similar to the einherjar of Odin, the Nazgûls, or the Ringwraiths, are the fallen and…

of Sauron. He started as quite the respectable and noble gentleman. But soon he abandoned his morality in order to gain more power for himself. To do so, he teamed up with his former enemy. He has an amazing ability to build plans fast and secretly, and have no one suspect anything.…

trapped by Sauron and Luthien comes to his rescue. She was able to over throw Sauron and “Luthien came to him [Sauron], and said that he should be stripped of his raiment of flesh, and his ghost be sent quaking back to Morgoth; and she said: ‘There everlastingly thy naked self shall endure the torment of his scorn, pierced by his eyes, unless thou yield to me the mastery of thy tower’” (Tolkien, Silmarillion 172). Not only did Luthien have to save Beren, but she also had the power to stop…

Shakespeare is one of the greatest playwrights in history and in 1599 Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar one of his greatest plays right next to Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. In this research paper the backgrounds of Julius Caesar and Brutus, two people from the play, will be talked about and how Brutus stabs his best friend Julius Caesar in the back. Also, a modern day Julius Caesar, Gandalf the Grey, and a modern day Brutus, Saruman the White, have been chosen so that their relationship, and…

the Rings is the first volume of the three in the Lord of Rings. This trilogy is regarded as one of the finest fictional narratives of the twentieth century. The person that is considered The Lord of the Rings is Sauron, who lost the One Ring long ago that contained most of his power. Sauron desires to recover the lost Ring and use it to enslave the entire Middle-earth. The paper will be analyzing this story extensively. The Fellowship of the Ring starts with the 111th birthday party of Bilbo.…