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    The Fellowship of the Rings is the first of the three volumes in “The Lord of the Rings”, an epic set in the fictional world of Middle-earth. The Lord of the Rings is an entity named Sauron, the Dark Lord, who long ago lost the One Ring that contains much of his power. His overriding desire is to reclaim the Ring and use it to enslave all of Middle-earth. The story of The Lord of the Rings begins with several events that take place in The Hobbit. While wandering lost in a deep cave, Bilbo Baggins

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    The Fellowship of 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

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    With John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring as inspiration, an analysis is used to define to following: the idea of an evil ring to be symbolism for temptation and deadly addictions people suffer from, evidence to show the psychology and neuroscience behind what temptation is and how self-control correlates with it, and a few characters’ reaction to this ring and how the temptation of the Ring affects these characters. Tolkien was born January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa

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    or reliably, that might make you want to include them in your film. (It 's worth noting that these moments are used outside of horror films, too. There is a famous one in the beginning of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), when Bilbo Baggins is presented with the One Ring. This scene is widely recognized as a "scary" moment in a non-horror film, and is hardly ever critically derided, despite being a completely textbook, by-the-numbers "jump scare" - complete with an almost

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    I owe my ever-deepening interest in J. R. R. Tolkien’s work to a single cinematic shot in Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring. The Moria orcs are fleeing a sinister presence, and the fellowship stands stock still in fear. In the midst of this uncertainty the camera slowly focuses in on the fellowship standing together, as the light of Gandalf’s staff illuminates the sheer emptiness left behind the orcs. And just as the silence reaches its highest point, the staff’s light shines on the stark

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    Recently it came upon me to watch The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring. For a quick overview of the movie, the director is Peter Jackson, the screenwriters are Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and the work is taken from the book series Lord of the Rings, of which JRR Tolkien is the author. The actors who played the main characters that will be featured in this review are Elijah Wood, Ian McKeelman, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, and

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    In the “Fellowship of the Ring” written by J.R.R. Tolkien and it reveals a new world of elves, magic, men, dwarves, hobbits, and other unworldly creatures. Middle Earth is the name of the lands every creature inhabits, and like our world, it is divided up and has different realms of elves, dwarves, men and so forth. Much to my surprise I enjoyed the book and found it was very intriguing. While I was reading further into the book I became more drawn into the plot and main characters. The “Fellowship

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    journey. Lord of the Rings is no exception. In the first part of this trilogy, called “The Fellowship of the Ring”, Frodo, a hobbit, travels with two companions, Sam and Pippin, to go to the Cracks of Doom and destroy the ring of the dark lord, Sauron. If they don’t do this, he will claim the ring and control all of Middle-Earth. Their journey is long and hard, and it is clear that they won’t be able to complete this quest by themselves. A possible theme to The Fellowship of the Ring could be that friends

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    provide more substance to the recognition of the theme and attract the viewers attention. I have chosen to discuss the film, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001), directed by Peter Jackson. Like so many other films, there can be multiple themes interpreted within, but there is usually a major theme that is established. In the Fellowship of the Ring, the major theme is power and the destruction

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    the novel, “The Fellowship of the Ring,” written by J.R.R. Tolkien, one message that J.R.R. Tolkien has shown to the readers throughout the novel is that, power corrupts all who seek it. The novel is set in a place called Middle-earth where the Dark Lord, Sauron, forged a Ring from his life force so that he could rule all of Middle-earth and its inhabitants. But, Sauron the Ring was then stolen, and for a long time he believed that the ring was lost forever. Many years later the ring came to a Hobbit

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