He also gives the story a romantic angle with his love story with the elf princess Arwen. He does not have any desire to keep the ring and to use its power to regain his throne. He emerges out as a pure heart supporting the noble cause of destroying the ring to save the middle earth. He keeps his identity a secret from the starting and lives like a ranger. While Frodo keeps suffering from the greed for the ring, Sam is the one who supports him and keeps him standing against the brutal journey.Īragorn: He is the rightful king for Gondor. He is a pure soul and always immune to the call of the ring. He is the best example of a loyal fellow. He takes care of Frodo through out the story and helps him in carrying the ring. He is usually playful but also concerned about the future of the middle earth. He also turned into a white wizard from the grey and shocks everyone. His battle with Saruman in Moria are among the best parts of the novel. Gandalf also exhibits some remarkable courage and wisdom. Gandalf was the first to know the powers and dangers of the ring and kept Bilbo and Frodo away from the unseen. Gandalf: A great wizard who keeps the whole trilogy running. Although the ring is destroyed in the end, we can not give him the credit anyhow. We feel pity for him as in many scenes he has failed to emerge as a true hero. When it comes about dropping the ring into the mount Doom, he denies to do so and steps back to keep the ring. He is always found weak in front of the strong temptation offered by the ring to its bearer.

A young hobbit chosen to keep the ring to return to Mordor. He never realised that his ring is the source of a great power, however is greatly influenced by it and has started turning as a maniac as he grows old.įrodo: The main protagonist of the series. Bilbo is a happy go lucky and playful hobbit who lived his whole life in Shire. Starting from a beautiful place Shire, land of Hobbits, the story ranges till northwest middle earth with the help and involvement of interesting characters like Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Sam, Meriadoc, Pippin, Boromir, Gimli, Legolas, and the great magician Gandalf, etcīilbo: Frodo’s uncle, who possessed the ring first of all. The story starts with the main antagonist of the story Lord Sauron who created a ring with the power to rule the world by ruling over all other rings of different powers. You can easily imagine how good this novel is as this is the second best selling novel ever and has sold over 150 million copies worldwide.

This was written in parts during the time of world war II.

It started basically as the sequel to a children’s story The Hobbit, 1937. The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest fantasy novel of all times from English author J.

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