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…. After successfully defending it against the Orcs, they continue their journey to Oronac. There they find Merry and Pippin, the two hobbits that were captured in the first book, who traveled to Oronac with the Ents, tree-like creatures, and have already…

…than a myth. By chance, the One Ring fell into the hands of a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, played by Ian Holm. On Bilbo's birthday, he disappeared and thus bequeathing the One Ring to Frodo the role taken by Elijah Wood. A hobbit, small and quiet, but hardy…

…a very elderly (but also very sleepy) hobbit. His recurrent sleep prefigures the symbolic death that occurs in the sailing towards the Grey Havens. Even on the ride to the sea, Bilbo is half-asleep on his horse. Throughout the trilogy, the elves have…

…and simplicity, which made the foundation for a main theme of his “The interrelationships of the ‘noble’ and ‘simple’”. All of his noble creatures such as his elves and hobbits exercise respect and understanding of nature. Living through the Great War…

…is done to such a level that you begin to believe that this Middle Earth, filled with Hobbits and Dragons, could be real. The whole fantasy/action genre allows the mind to go wild and starts to imagine impossible, far fetched things and also brings the film…

…denizen of Middle Earth, "Mark my words my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn," (I, 168) and his power is demonstrated by his ability to compel Old Man Willow to release the hobbits…

…JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings have inspired me to study the world he has created. One of the aspects that is of great interest to me is the armor and weapons used by the warriors and armies of Middle. In many ways Tolkien has modeled…

…. In a small village called the Shire lived a young Hobbit named Frodo. Gandalf the wizard set him off on a quest to return the “One Ring” to the Mount of Doom, the only location where it could be destroyed. On the way he gathered eight associates to be known…

…that is, in my opinion, the basic theme that underlines Tolkien’s work. This human and very real struggle appears in Tolkien’s The Silmarillion portrayed in the story of the silmarils (23-244). It appears again in his book The Hobbit, evidenced in Thorin’s conflict…

…and was praised for his writings from other famous writers of his time such as C.S. Lewis and W.H. Auden. Return of the King begins with Gandalf a mighty wizard and Pippin a hobbit arriving at the kingdom of Minas Tirith which presides over the land…