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Lord Of The Rings Realist Analysis

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS FROM REALIST PERSPECTIVE

Lord of the Rings written by J. R. R. Tolkien first published in 1954. This fantastic book became more and more famous when it adapted into screenplay by Peter Jackson in 2001. This work constitute a perfect background for international theories. For example, some scholars perceive the movie as liberalist and some as realist. The greens embrace the movie since trees literally go into war and some feminists also embrace the movie since Eowyn killed the Lord of the Nazgul by declaring “I am no man” (Jackson, 2003)
In this article I will try to explain the trilogy Lord of the Rings from the realist perspective. In the first part of the article I will give a brief summary of the trilogy The Lord of the Rings, in the second part I will explain realist IR theory in general and in the third …show more content…

In his 111th birthday, Gandalf the Grey convinced him to give up from ring and that’s how the ring of power passed to Frodo. By the way Gandalf discovered that the ring Bilbo hold for almost 70 years is the one ring which will rule the others and he started to make a plan to destroy the ring and send Frodo and his company Sam to Rivendell, the realm of elves. During their trip they meet Strider, or in his real name Aragorn, the heir of Isildur who fear to assume the throne of Gondor.
When they reach Rivendell, Elrond, the ruler of the Rivendell, gathers representatives of the most of the realms to find a solution to the problem of destroying the one ring. At the end of the Council of Elrond, it is decided that the ring should destroyed in the Mount of Doom and the fellowship of the ring organized.
The characters from the fellowship of the ring faced a lot of important difficulties, fights, wars and separation. At the end of the first movie Frodo and Sam continued their way to Mount of Doom while others tries to find alliances and tries to weaken the Sauron and Saruman.

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