Lord Of The Rings: What Does The Ring Represent?
...the ring fan, and since ive read these books several times and
watched the movies, its not hard to understand that I have been starting to think about
different themes in the book, and if there are some symbolism.
My term paper will be based on my own subjective opinion regarding the subject of whether
or not the ring of power in the modern classic “The lord of the ring”, written by J.R.R Tolkien
repsesents something special or if its just a matter of spicing up the story.
One Ring to Rule Them All. One Ring to Find Them. One Ring to Bring Them All and In The
Darkness Bind Them.
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Lord sauron, the thrilogies evil antagonist originally forged the ring of power.
In the flames of mount doom he created a tool wich enforced his powers, made him
unstopable, until Isildur, the king of Gondor managed to bring sauron down.
He had a chance to destroy the ring, right there and then, but the ring choose for him,
possesed him, made him do otherwise, and the ring lived on.
The thrilogy takes place decades after Sauron ones lost the ring. But since the ring lived on,
Sauron did too, and therefor the ring must be destroyd.
The person who is appointed this quest of being the ringbearer, and going to Mordor, is no
other than the little hobbit Frodo.
Throughout the 1000 pages long novel, you get to follow Frodos journy to the lands of
Mordor, and ultimately his struggle with letting the ring go.
The rings effect on people plays out differently depending on who it´s effecting. For
example Galadriel, the elfish queen, can hardly resist the temptetion of power and
destruction, meanwhile Frodo carrys it for a long time seemingly uneffected.
I´d like to do a paralell between The ring of evil and drugs in modern society.
Theres no one who claims that drugs, whether it´s alcohol or if its cocain is...
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