1. Acrchtypal Theory
... is the "dark power" which is connected to Gollum that makes him a pivotal character through out the whole trilogy. In the ending of The Hobbit, Bilbo passes the ring onto his heir, Frodo. At the beginning of The Fellowship of the Rings, the first book in the trilogy, Frodo ... Aragorn the immortal ancestry necessary to be hero in the reader's eyes. "The fact that Aragorn's immortal ancestry is played down is consonant with Tolkien's practice of providing realistic bases for what in a true medieval narrative would seem supernatural" (Flieger 44). "Aragorn's atonement with the father come...
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