Comparing Good and Evil in Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rin

Comparing substantially and Evil in Tolkiens The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Imagine yourself in a pre-industrial world bountiful of mystery and magic. Imagine a world full of monsters, demons, and danger, as wellhead as a world full of friends, fairies, good wizards, and adventure. In doing so you have just taken your first step onto a gigantic world created by author and scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Tolkien became fascinated by language at an early age during his schooling, in particularly, the languages of Northern Europe, both ancient and modern. This affinity for language did not only lead to his profession, exactly also his private hobby, the invention of languages. His broad knowlight-emitting diodege eventually led to the development of his opinions about Myth and the importance of stories. All these various perspectives language, the do-or-die(a) tradition, and Myth, as well as deeply-held beliefs in Catholic Christianity work unneurotic in all of his works . The main elements of Tolkiens works are Good versus Evil, characters of Christian and anti-Christian origin, and the power of imagination. In Tolkien world, evil is the antithesis of creativity, and is dependent on ravaging and ruin for its basis. Conversely, goodness is associated with the beauty of creation as well as the preservation of anything that is created. The symbolic nature of these two ideologies is represented in the Elven Rings, which hold still for goodness, and the One Ring, which is wholly evil. A main theme of The Hobbit, then, is the struggle indoors our own free will between good will and evil. archaean in the (Lord of the Rings) narrative, Frodo recalls that his uncle Bilbo, especially during his later years, was fond of declaring that there was only wizard Road that it was lik... ...Pity 2. Self-sacrifice B. Evil 1. corruption (Gollum) 2. greed (Smaug) II. Characters, Christian and anti-Christian A. Christian 1. Comparing to Christ a. Bilbo b. Gandalf B . Anti-Christian 1. Satan a. Saruman b. The Ring III. Power of the Imagination A. Creates alternative belief B. Escape through imagination Works Cited Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel. The Hobbit. unexampled York Ballantine, 1982. Wood, Ralph C. Traveling the one road The Lord of the Rings as a pre-Christian classic. The Christian Century Feb. 93 208(4). Eucatastrophe. Time September. 1973 101 Evans, Robley. J. R. R. Tolkien Warner Paperback Library. 1972 23-4, 41-2, 202 Urang, Gunnar. J. R. R. Tolkien phantasy and the Phenomenology of Hope Religion and Fantasy in the Writing of C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and J. R. R. Tolkien. United church service Press, 1971