... ultimately prevails, the fallibility of the mortals in the Fellowship allows for corruption within. None of the wise in the story will accept the ring, even with intentions of good. The wizard in the Fellowship, Gandalf the Grey, sets Frodo on his journey to destroy the Ring. When Frodo offers Gandalf the Ring, he refuses possession of it: "With that power I should have power too great and terrible Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by ... they catch me here, I shall have to argue and explain, and I shall never have the heart or the chance to get off. But I must go at once. It's the...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie(Tolkien)." Master of storytelling J. R. R. Tolkien continues the lives of the fictitious creatures that he introduced in The Hobbit, in his modern classic The Fellowship of the Ring. He artfully illustrates the truths of the evil that plague the hearts of man. He tells a story of greed, destruction and how mortal men are enslaved by their ... inhabitants of the middle-earth. Many critics waited upon the release of the last volume of the series, which was published in 1955,...

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• Grade Level: High School