A main theme seen within Tolkien's prequel, The Hobbit, is a battle within one self between good and evil. ... Wood's analyzing of the Tolkien's works brings out one of his main aspects of his writing, the internal conflict of good versus evil. ... In The Lord of the Rings Frodo was challenged with the destruction of the all-evil and corrupting rings of power. ... The end of The Lord of the Rings is almost the death of Frodo, but instead the death of the creature Gollum. ... Tolkien created The Lord of the Rings and its prologue out of a power of imagination. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. ... Writers and Advocates of Feminist Criticism Judith Fetterly's book, The Resisting Reader (1978) points out that women should resist the meanings (i.e. the visions of how women ought to behave) that male authors - or female authors who have inherited patriarchal values - bury in their books. ... In her book, Lé Deuxiéme Sexe (1949; The Second Sex)2, Simone de Beauvoir argued that associating men with humanity more generally (as many cultures do) relegates women to an inferior position in society. ... North American feminist critics of th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate