The Lord of the Rings
Good and Evil Created by the One Ring "How shall a man judge what to do in such times?... As he has ever judged... good and ill have not changed since yesteryear" (Tolkien, Towers 49). Almost all novels deal with the concept of good and evil. In the Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien explores the theory of good and evil through the characters of Gandalf, Sauron, Gollum, and Frodo. This concept of good and evil has absolute goods and evils (Gandalf and Sauron) and people who are both good and evil (Gollum and Frodo). Gandalf is one of the five Istari or Wizards who appeared in Middle-earth "to contest the power of Sauron... and to move Elves and Men an all living things of good will to valiant deeds" (Tolkien, Silmaril 299). Gandalf alone becomes responsible for Sauron's fall because of his vigilance and persistence, he "is the mover of all that has been accomplished" (Tolkien, Return 300). Gandalf is the chief enemy of Sauron and "is a representative of a good that suggests knowledge of the whole of experience and that actively opposes the evil it sees, from the most elemental to the merely human" (Crabbe 83). Just as Sauron represents the ultimate evil, Gandalf represents the ultimate good. In the Lord of the Rings a traditiona
Sauron could be considered the Satan of Middle-earth because he so closely parallels him. Gandalf becomes the symbol for the free people and is named the White Rider by Aragorn. He became sharp-eyed and keen-eared for all that was hurtful" (Tolkien, Fellowship 85). The Ring was Gollum's way to evil, because the desire of it drove him on. they would have thought that they beheld an old weary hobbit, shrunken Brown 5 by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing (Tolkein, Towers 411). Sauron is after a power over all of Middle-earth that "parodies the power of the creator. Gollum also has a good side and Gandalf bel!ieved that he could have been cured and that there was still hope. According to Tolkien the absolute evil is represented by the Dark-Lord Sauron, while the absolute good is represented through Gandalf. In spite of all of Frodo's good qualities he has a potential to become like Gollum, because of his possession of the Ring. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**Works CitedCrabbe, Katharyn W. Sauron's Brown 3story follows Satan's point by point and even his name has serpent connotations probably deriving from the Greek, sauros, meaning lizard (Helms 66).
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