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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 ...
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.
Mary Bowman writes that Tolkien makes use of multiple metanarrative techniques in The Lord of the Rings, including, as with Frodo and Sam at Cirith Ungol, having characters discuss narrative, in that case actually self-referentially, [11] as Sam realises that the Phial of Galadriel contains some of the light of the Silmarils, tying his tale ...
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."
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 ...
Sam Gamgee, Frodo's servant, who carries Frodo up to Mount Doom, parallels Simon of Cyrene, who helps Jesus by carrying his cross. [39] When Frodo accomplishes his mission, like Christ, he says "it is done". [40] Just as Christ ascends to heaven, Frodo's life in Middle-earth comes to an end when he takes ship to the Undying Lands. [37]
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Scholars have remarked that unlike the rest of The Lord of the Rings (which has an elaborately interlaced structure), all of The Fellowship of the Ring is told as a single thread with Frodo as the protagonist, with the exception of the two long flashback chapters, "The Shadow of the Past" and "The Council of Elrond".