... theme seen within Tolkien's prequel, The Hobbit, is a battle within one self between good and evil. "Early in the narrative [The Lord of the Rings], Frodo recalls that his Uncle Bilbo, especially during his later years, was fond of declaring that there was only one Road; that is was like a great river: its spring were at every doorstep, and ever path was tributary" (Wood, 208). Wood's analyzing of the ... from the powers of the ring on Mount Doom. Another form of good that was displayed throughout The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is Bilbo and Frodo's actions of self-sacrifice. In The ...

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... damsels in distress and live happily (I wonder who) ever after. Look at the portrayal of Eowyn, in the J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. She was just supposed to be the shield-maiden, stay behind to tend to the women and children. She tries to stand up and says, "But, I can fight!- Of course, Theoden says, "I need you to stay behind and to look after ... this refusal to assent, to begin the process of exorcizing the male mind that has been implanted in us."1 On the thematic level, then, the reader rejects stereotypes and examines woman as a theme in literary works. The feminist reader s...

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