... imagination, and is dependent on devastation and decay for its basis. Conversely, righteousness is built from the beauty of creation and the safeguarding of anything that has been created. The symbols of these two opposing forces are seen as the Elven Rings, which symbolize good, and the One Ring, which is pure evil. A main theme seen within Tolkien's prequel, The Hobbit ... caves of the misty mountains so he would not lose his "precious," and slowly became the creature known as Gollum. Another evil that is more familiar to most readers is greed. Smaug, a dragon from The Hobbit, had no ...

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