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J. R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings

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The trilogy of the Lord of the Rings is filled with action, adventure, heroism, friendship, and sadness. As we follow the main character, Frodo Baggins, who’s a small and gentle Hobbit; we see how he ventures off to destroy the Ring of Power. Frodo travels with his friends through the fields of battle, through death and pain, losing those he care much about. What many people do not realize is that in the trilogy of the Lord of the Rings, author J.R.R. Tolkien bases the settings and events to actual events in his life. In the Lord of the Rings, the dark lord Sauron wages war on the world of man. In the story, Tolkien tells how 19 rings were created to govern the people of the Elves, Dwarves, and Men. But, a secret ring was created by Sauron. With this ring, Sauron is able to take over the entire Middle Earth. Before Sauron was able to have the entire Middle Earth under his control, the alliance of Men and Elves were able to stop Sauron and his army of Orcs. The king of Men, Isildor, confronted Sauron and was able to cut ring off of Saurons hand. Sauron was then defeated. The Ring of Power was taken by Isildor and was then lost. Many years later, the Ring of Power was discovered and war was coming once more to …show more content…

An example is the character Samwise Gamgee. “He wrote later that Sam Gamegee of the Lord of the Rings was based on ‘The English Soldier…the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war (Koster, Katie De. Readings on J.R.R. Tolkien. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 2000. Print.)” The creation of the Ring of Power is known to be related to an ancient ring actually found in a Roman Temple. “It is thought that an Inscribed gold ring was found in a Hampshire field in 1785 that was linked to a Roman curse tablet at Dwarf’s Hill (Jahangir, Rumeana. “The Hobbit: How England Inspired Tolkien’s Middle Earth. “BBC News. BBC, 07 Dec. 2014. Web. 14 Feb.

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