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Gollum is a monster [2] with a distinctive style of speech in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became important in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. Gollum was a Stoor Hobbit [T 1] [T 2] of the River-folk who lived near the Gladden Fields.
"The Council of Elrond" is the second chapter of Book 2 of J. R. R. Tolkien's bestselling fantasy work, The Lord of the Rings, which was published in 1954–1955.It is the longest chapter in that book at some 15,000 words, and critical for explaining the power and threat of the One Ring, for introducing the final members of the Company of the Ring, and for defining the planned quest to destroy it.
[25] The question is answered in different ways: the monster Gollum is weak, quickly corrupted, and finally destroyed; Boromir, son of the Steward of Gondor, begins virtuous but like Plato's Gyges is corrupted "by the temptation of power" [25] from the Ring, even if he wants to use it for good, but redeems himself by defending the hobbits to ...
He was exposed as a child to Victorian attitudes to race, and to a literary tradition of monsters, In his personal life, he was anti-racist both in peacetime and during the two World Wars. With the late 19th-century background of eugenics and a fear of moral decline, Robin Anne Reid and others have suggested that the mention of race mixing in ...
Ian McKellen sent “Lord of the Rings” fans into a tizzy earlier this year when he teased that the upcoming movie, “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum,” would actually be two films.
If they do anything, we're going to give them s*** back.’” Serkis was referring to the sanctions that are being imposed on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, and the actor likened the evil ...
Scholars have likened the Valar to Christian angels, intermediaries between the creator and the created world. [1] [2] Painting by Lorenzo Lippi, c. 1645J. R. R. Tolkien was an English author and philologist of ancient Germanic languages, specialising in Old English; he spent much of his career as a professor at the University of Oxford. [3]
Luckily for the star, his family thinks so too. The newlywed — who married Brooke Sansone in Montecito, Calif. on Sept. 7 — says his new wife’s family “just dies of laughter” watching ...