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Themes of The Lord of the Rings
- Tolkien's Middle-earth family treesJ. R. R. Tolkien approached his fantasy world as a philologist first and a storyteller second. He used family trees to explore the etymologies of character…
- Company of the RingIn the dark lands of Mordor, nine shadowy figures known as Black Riders or Ringwraiths ride in silence. They are the enemy that demands a counterforce. J.R.R.
- Addiction to power in The Lord of the RingsIn the fires of Mount Doom during the Second Age, the Dark Lord Sauron forged the One Ring to control all who wore other Rings of Power.
- Poetry in The Lord of the RingsThe Lord of the Rings contains over 60 poems and songs interspersed with its prose narrative. Some scholars count as many as 75 if variations and Tom…
- Quests in Middle-earthBilbo Baggins leaves Bag End in the Shire to hunt for treasure. Frodo Baggins also departs from Bag End, but his goal is to destroy a ring instead of keeping…
- Sound and language in Middle-earthJ. R. R. Tolkien was both a philologist and an author of high fantasy. He remarked to the poet Harvey Breit that he was a philologist and all his work was…
- Christianity in Middle-earthJ. R. R. Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic from boyhood, and he described The Lord of the Rings in particular as a "fundamentally religious and Catholic…
- Tolkien and raceIn 2009, scholar Dimitra Fimi published a book titled Tolkien, Race and Cultural History that examined conflicting academic arguments about J. R. R.
- Tolkien's mapsA 1937 edition of The Hobbit opens with a hand-drawn map of Wilderland. This drawing stretches from Rivendell in the west to the Lonely Mountain and Smaug…
- Women in The Lord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien lost his father in South Africa and his mother in England a few years later, leaving him an orphan as a boy.
- Themes of The Lord of the RingsThe story of The Lord of the Rings centers on a hobbit named Frodo Baggins. He carries a dark object called the One Ring to Mount Doom.