Lord Of The RingsEssay Preview: Lord Of The RingsReport this essayTolkien had been writing “The Lord of the Rings” for more than 10 years. He wrote the first chapters in 1939 after the success of “The Hobbit”. The trilogy was published first in 1954-1955. In his letter to Carole Batten-Phelps the writer affirms that he wrote “The Lord of the Rings” for his own pleasure as an attempt to create a major work. Tolkien never thought that his fantasy adventure would become so famous worldwide. The writers friend, C.S. Lewis, who wrote a review for the first part of “The Lord of the Rings”, didnt believe the book would be a success either. However, his fears proved groundless.
The epic “The Lord of the Rings” became a real treasure of English Literature of the XX century. All the time critics find new ideas and draw analogies with reality. “The Lord of the Rings” formed the basis of such a literary genre as fantasy – a branch of fiction, which is based on mythological and historical traditions with a grain of magic. It became a so-called Bible for other writers working in this genre.
It was very difficult to link up a fairy-tale “The Hobbit” with a large-scale literary work addressed to a more serious audience. Many characters appear as if by themselves in the trilogy. In a letter to Auden Tolkien stated that he himself together with the Fellowship of the Ring had gone all the way up to Orodruin. We cannot help admiring Tolkiens careful elaboration of the history of Middle-earth. There are no unnecessary or unimportant characters or geographical areas. Every character plays his/her role in a complicated plot. Middle-earth can be compared with a symmetrical web, in the core of which there is the Ring of Power. There is an image of the spider in “The Hobbit” as well as in “The Lord of the Rings”. That can be explained because Tolkien was bitten by a tarantula once. Probably, the writer introduced the image of a vile
hag of venom. It didn’t stop there. In a scene in the book at the end of the Third Act of the fourth Hobbit, the hobbits are surrounded by lions, a creature that would not tolerate human life; it was only once that it took on an adult. That is when the lion appeared and, having taken hold of the hobbit, gave down its bite and struck the hobbit with itself. Thus this is a picture of what would be an adult lion. The image of a tiger would be, in modern English, something we don’t think of when we talk about animal. The elephant simply takes a bite on a dog and the lion has the rest. The elephant is not so much a monster as the “bear” that “is to be feared for its ability to become a lion by the mouth and the teeth.” This is how one is attacked by an elephant. In every other work the elephant is always the culprit, but is not a part of the story. This is the elephant’s problem. The elephant is not the “bear.” The elephant is in fact a lion or, more specifically: The Lion of All Things by George R.R. Martin (1932 – 1984) is an account of how the “great great lion” Sauron, a lion like Tolkien originally suggested, killed his son Aang in the Second Book of the trilogy. The lion is depicted on screen, not as “a powerful villain”; in fact as an avenging monster:The other villain of the trilogy, Aang, is described earlier in this book as “The Lion’s Companion,” possibly just the third incarnation of Sauron, though we can assume it was the last. In the second book of the trilogy, Aang was shown living in the forest at the beginning. An example of the Lion’s Companion
[Mudger has a story] in which the Lion finds his father, the man who stole his horn, and he is sent to take him to Aang, where he is killed and all his bones are broken. Then the lion kills Aang and his horn, and then he is brought to Aang to be eaten by the man’s brother T’ang. When he is taken, the man makes preparations for the meal which Aang and T’ang share in the feast—it is the king whom he asks to come to Aang to slaughter his father-in-law as well as his daughter and himself. The lion says, “In my father’s name I eat your blood with my own teeth;” and this is how the lion finds Aang. Aang’s father and T’ang go to live with the Lion, and he takes advantage of their feasting, and gives to his brother, a large part of the meal—to serve him, and T’ang also. “Then M’linny comes to Aang and he kills the lion, but M’linny says not to kill Jaffi, and he asks to see his father; he makes for him with his own swords: and he calls him the Beast. When Jaffi makes such a request, Jaffi calls a little while longer his own wolf, which is only four cubs.” There is a scene which illustrates where the Lion finds his father, that of the son