The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

Wisdom is the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment. Marcel Proust, a brilliant French novelist, once said,”We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” This quote couldn’t be more true for J.R.R Tolkien’s book, The Hobbit. The story itself is about a young man who must discover what it truly means to live a life of excitement. Some may say it is the main character Bilbo who achieves a great deal of wisdom throughout his adventure, but the dwarves that travel with him, especially Thorin Oakenshield who led the journey, learned a valuable lesson throughout the adventure that would forever change their lives and their ways of seeing things. Everyone

“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,” (55). The One Ring controls Gollum, Bilbo, Boromir, and Frodo in attempts to return to Sauron, Its Creator, the Lord of the Rings, and the utmost evil present in J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels. But the Ring never achieves Its goal because each character possesses a unique set of skills which resist the evil temptations of the Ring. Gollum is the first victim of the Ring, with no knowledge of Its powers or guidance away from Its control. Bilbo is the second ring bearer, with an almost complete knowledge of the Ring’s power still has difficulty resisting the Ring’s temptation. Gandalf guides Bilbo to constantly resist the evil of the Ring.

Bilbo goes on a quest throughout Wilderland meeting enemies like Trolls, Elves in the Elven hall, and Goblins in the Goblin tunnels. Bilbo discovers an important creature named Gollum in these Goblin tunnels. Gollum possess a powerful ring that makes the wearer invisible. Bilbo finds this ring in the Goblin tunnels and takes it. It helps Bilbo in many ways, most importantly allowing bilbo to talk to Smaug without being seen. While talking with the dragon Bilbo discovers the one and only weak spot of the dragon, a chip in his gem plated scales. The dragon then attacks a town of men and is slain by Bard, a skillful bowman. The dwarves then reclaim their stolen treasure in the Lonely Mountain. Greed leads armies of all races to the Lonely Mountain wanting some of the gold and loot inside. The greed causes a battle to happen in which the Dwarf King Thorin is killed. Bilbo then returns to Bag End as a new person. He is braver, bolder, and more courageous than he was before the journey.

The inspiring novel, The Hobbit, written by J. R. R. Tolkien, definitely deserves the right to be considered a timeless classic. Tolkien uses the main character, Bilbo Baggins, a well respected hobbit, to explain how fast one’s life can change. Mr. Baggins doesn’t believe he will go on an adventure through Middle-Earth the day Gandalf comes to Bag End to tell him so. Nor does he think the many races he only heard of in stories, will face him in the mountain pass. As the expedition takes the reader through the marvelous sights, the author drags them through the horrid forest of Mirkwood and traps them in the Elvenking’s dungeon. Tolkien’s excellent word choice enhances the novel further, indicating that it is a tale told long after the journey finishes. Through the use of dwarves, Tolkien describes the fact that all races show their true colors at one point or another, but it does not define them to be the same as all the others of that race. Mr. Tolkien beautifully intertwines the underlying messages and powerful statements in the wild settings and creative characters.

In the beginning of the Fellowship of the Ring it tells of how Bilbo came upon the cursed ring of Sauron. It also shows how immediately the bearer of the ring becomes corrupted. Although Bilbo had found the ring by luck, he tells others of how he “won” the ring in the game, which is a way of justifying that the ring was rightfully his. There are many instances throughout the book that shows this corrupting influence of power.

It all begins when a mysterious wizard by the name of Gandalf talks him to go on an adventure. Immediately, Bilbo turns down his offer since he was not interested in any adventures taking him away from his safe village. However, the next day, thirteen dwarves came to his house, reuniting to later set off on their quest. Soon, Bilbo finds out that he’s been recruited, unwillingly, as a burglar into Thorin’s expedition to retrieve his treasure. He becomes so frighten that he faints but reluctantly accepts. Nonetheless, the dwarves initially see him as a sort of a child who cannot possibly help them in their quest for treasure, but Gandalf assures them that there was more of the hobbit than meets the eye.

Gandalf leaves the Shire and warns Frodo to keep the ring secret until he returns. When Gandalf does years later, he tells Frodo of what he has discovered about Bilbo's ring; it is the “One Ring” of Sauron the Dark Lord. The ring is evil and is needed by Sauron to enslave all the people’s of Middle Earth.

He leaves and entrusts the ring to his heir, Frodo Baggins. Gandalf gets worried after Bilbo tells

The fellowship of the ring by J.R.R, Tolkien, is a novel set in a couple of different places. It all takes place in Middle-Earth. Inside Middle-Earth there are places such as The hobbit town, Bag end, and the Shire. This novel is about a very dangerous and exciting journey to destroy one powerful ring which the protagonist of the novel, Frodo, possesses Throughout the novel, we can see how Frodo has a major transformation in his personality with the help of some of his friends. It is evident that Frodo is not the most heroic character, but he is still chosen to be the main attraction in the fellowship of the ring and to keep the ring safe and secret.

After they encountered one of the Black Riders, Frodo admits that they are looking for him and it is not safe for him to stay in the Shire, which causes the hobbits to volunteer to follow Frodo wherever he plans to go: “‘You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin - to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours - closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word’” (Tolkein 103). As they progressed, the journey became more dangerous and ironically, Merry, Pippin, and Sam grew greater desire to accompany Frodo. At Elrond’s Council, this gives Gandalf the impression that the hobbits should be members of the Company: “‘I think, Elrond, that in this matter it would be well to trust rather to their friendship than to great wisdom. Even if you chose for us an elf-lord, such as Glorfindel, he could not storm the Dark Tower, nor open the road to the Fire by the power that is in him'” (Tolkein). Gandalf believes that fellowship would be greater protection to Frodo against evil than to choose three other individuals with great

Frodo goes by the name of "Underhill" rather than Baggins. While visiting with other hobbits and men from Bree, Frodo makes eye contact with a mysterious-looking man in the corner. The man then warns Frodo that Pippin is close to revealing who the hobbits really are, so Frodo begins to recite a poem that earns the applause of everyone in the inn. When he recites it a second time, Frodo gets carried away and falls off the table and accidentally lets the Ring slip on his finger causing him to disappear. The incident causes a major commotion, and several rough-looking men leave the inn. Frodo reappears and said that he slipped away out of embarrassment, but few buy the explanation. The hobbits then retire from the common room only to find that they have been followed by the mysterious man, who goes by the name Strider, a Ranger. He claims to be a friend of Gandalf and warns that the Nazgûl are after them and only he can guide them to Rivendell. Frodo doubts Strider until Butterbur comes in with a note from Gandalf to Frodo left some time earlier. Gandalf says to trust Strider and ask him his real name. Without even being asked, Strider reveals his name as Aragorn son of Arathorn and is the heir of Isildur in the North. Merry then comes in and says he was waylaid by the Nazgûl. Strider has them spend the night in another

Because of Bilbo's mistake of misusing the ring creatures from Mordor have begun a search for the ring. Gandalf researches this ring and discovers it is the ring

This book is part 1 of a series about good versus evil. The first story begins in the Shire, where Frodo, a hobbit, inherits a magical ring from his cousin, Bilbo. They didn’t know where it came from or even that it was full of evil magic. One day Gandalf the Grey, a powerful wizard and old friend of Bilbo’s, saw the ring and realized the Ring's true powers and purpose. He then told Frodo he must take it away from the Shire and destroy it. Frodo left with his friend Sam, and two cousins, Merry and Pip. Gandalf the wizard told them they had to find four more people to help him complete his tasks. He will have to take the Ring to Mordor. Then Frodo can cast it into the

On the autumn of the year of Frodo’s fiftieth birthday a company of hobbits set out from their only home, the Shire, and began a journey that would take them across Middle Earth on a quest to destroy the Ring of Sauron and save Middle Earth. This is the setting to the plot in the book, The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien. In this book the main character, Frodo, is gifted the Ring by Bilbo, his adopted father, on his birthday before he leaves. It is discovered that this ring is the Ring of Sauron and it sends Frodo on the adventure of his life through great peril to destroy it. During this journey Frodo goes through great change making him a dynamic character.

Many years ago, he helped destroy Mordor, a great and powerful realm with millions of orcs. At that time, Frodo was a ring bearer, and fought through all of Mordor’s challenges, barely making it out alive. His journey was to travel to Mount Doom, and drop the Ring of Power into the mountain’s lava. The ring obtained immense power, and brought turmoil to all of Middle-Earth. The only way to ensure the safety of the people, was to destroy the ring for good. Frodo was successful, and saved all of the living things in the world.