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"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.
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 ...
[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 ...
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.
Scholars and critics have identified many themes of The Lord of the Rings, a major fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, including a reversed quest, the struggle of good and evil, death and immortality, fate and free will, the danger of power, and various aspects of Christianity such as the presence of three Christ figures, for prophet, priest, and king, as well as elements such as hope and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]