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

comparing Good and Evil in Tolkiens The Hobbit and The gentle of the Rings Imagine yourself in a pre-industrial creative activity full of closed book and magic. Imagine a world full of monsters, demons, and danger, as well as a world full of friends, fairies, good wizards, and adventure. In doing so you put one across just taken your first step onto a vast world created by author and scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Tolkien became fascinated by speech communication at an early age during his schooling, in particularly, the languages of Northern Europe, both antediluvian patriarch and modern. This affinity for language did not only lead to his profession, but in any case his private hobby, the invention of languages. His broad knowledge eventually led to the study of his opinions about Myth and the importance of stories. All these various perspectives language, the heroic tradition, and Myth, as well as deeply-held article of faiths in Catholic Christianity work together i n 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 destruction and ruination for its basis. Conversely, goodness is associated with the beauty of creation as well as the rescue of anything that is created. The symbolic nature of these two ideologies is represented in the Elven Rings, which symbolize goodness, and the 1 Ring, which is wholly evil. A main theme of The Hobbit, then, is the struggle within our aver free will between good will and evil. Early 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 one alley 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. Ga ndalf B. Anti-Christian 1. Satan a. Saruman b. The Ring III. Power of the Imagination A. Creates secondary belief B. Escape through imagination Works Cited Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel. The Hobbit. New York Ballantine, 1982. Wood, Ralph C. travelling 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 Fantasy and the Phenomenology of apprehend Religion and Fantasy in the Writing of C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and J. R. R. Tolkien. United Church Press, 1971