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The Scouring of the Shire" is the penultimate chapter of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship hobbits, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin, return home to the Shire to find that it is under the brutal control of ruffians and their leader "Sharkey", revealed to be the Wizard Saruman. The ruffians have despoiled the Shire ...
The journeys of Bilbo and Frodo have been interpreted as such a confined road as they both start and end their respective adventures in Bag End. According to Don D. Elgin, A Walking Song is "a song about the roads that go ever on until they return to at last to the familiar things they have always known."
Samwise Gamgee (/ ˈ s æ m ˌ w aɪ z ˈ ɡ æ m ˌ dʒ iː /, usually called Sam) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.A hobbit, Samwise is the chief supporting character of The Lord of the Rings, serving as the loyal companion (in effect, the manservant) of the protagonist Frodo Baggins.
The fateful film that made nerds of us all. The Fellowship of the Rings sees Elijah Woods step into the role of Frodo Baggins, a hobbit who inherits the omnipotent One Ring.Holding the ability to ...
Sauron: The primary antagonist of The Lord of the Rings. He crafted the One Ring, and was destroyed upon its destruction at the end of The Return of the King. Shelob: Monstrous spider and last notable spawn of Ungoliant. Smaug: A dragon and primary antagonist of The Hobbit. Slain by Bard the Bowman.
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The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey comments that "the themes of the Escape from Death, and the Escape from Deathlessness, are vital parts of Tolkien's entire mythology." [8] In a 1968 BBC television broadcast, Tolkien quoted French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and described the inevitability of death as the "key-spring of The Lord of the Rings ...
The members of the Company as portrayed in Peter Jackson's 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. From left to right: (top row) Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Boromir, (bottom row) Sam, Frodo, Merry, Pippin, Gimli. [13] The casting is widely admired. [14] Even Tolkien scholars hostile to the films admired the casting and ...