Resumo de The Lord Of The Rings

?The Lord of the Rings? is the greatest trilogy, and it immortalized the name of its creator. It consists of three parts: ?The Fellowship of the Ring?, ?The Two Towers? and ?The Return of the King?. The plot is based on the struggle for the Ring of Power, which was forged by Sauron, the Dark Lord, long long ago.

The trilogy is a logical sequence of a no less famous fairy tale by Tolkien ?The Hobbit? as well as the second part of the Red Book of Westmarch ? the main chronicle of the Third Age of Middle-earth. ?The Lord of the Rings? belongs to the genre of an epic, has many plots and a great number of main and secondary characters.

Tolkien had been writing ?The Lord of the Rings? for more than 10 years. He wrote the first chapters in 1939 after the success of ?The Hobbit?. The trilogy was published first in 1954-1955. In his letter to Carole Batten-Phelps the writer affirms that he wrote ?The Lord of the Rings? for his own pleasure as an attempt to create a major work. Tolkien never thought that his fantasy adventure would become so famous worldwide. The writer?s friend, C.S. Lewis, who wrote a review for the first part of ?The Lord of the Rings?, didn?t believe the book would be a success either. However, his fears proved groundless.

The epic ?The Lord of the Rings? became a real treasure of English Literature of the XX century. All the time critics find new ideas and draw analogies with reality. ?The Lord of the Rings? formed the basis of such a literary genre as fantasy ? a branch of fiction, which is based on mythological and historical traditions with a grain of magic. It became a so-called Bible for other writers working in this genre.

It was very difficult to link up a fairy-tale ?The Hobbit? with a large-scale literary work addressed to a more serious audience. Many characters appear as if by themselves in the trilogy. In a letter to Auden Tolkien stated that he himself together with the Fellowship of the Ring had gone all the way up to Orodruin. We cannot help admiring Tolkien?s careful elaboration of the history of Middle-earth. There are no unnecessary or unimportant characters or geographical areas. Every character plays his/her role in a complicated plot. Middle-earth can be compared with a symmetrical web, in the core of which there is the Ring of Power. There is an image of the spider in ?The Hobbit? as well as in ?The Lord of the Rings?. That can be explained because Tolkien was bitten by a tarantula once. Probably, the writer introduced the image of a vile many-legged being from his personal experience. Tolkien himself didn?t like to draw any parallels between his biography and literary works, and considered that it could distract readers? attention and in no way gives a better understanding of his books. However, he didn?t deny that some biographical facts were reflected in his books.

Every new line in ?The Lord of the Rings? arouses anxiety for the fate of Middle-earth. If there were no derivations from the main plot, there would have been felt the heat thousands times greater than from the fire of Orodruin. Tolkien fairly well understood that the reader needed a break from whimsical languages of Middle-earth as well as important events. That is why he skillfully introduces magnificent descriptions of nature and the book is abundant with many interesting dialogues, which help to understand protagonists? characters to the full extent.

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