Why You Should Think of the Benefits

              I have just finished the book, “The Fellowship of the Ring” by J.R.R Tolkien for the third time. It’s plot keeps me interested through the five-hundred or so pages. Frodo Baggins a hobbit is left a spacious home while his well-known relative Bilbo Baggins leaves the Shire, the Region where the Hobbits live. Gandalf visits Frodo time to time, and at last, during a visit written in the book in detail, Gandalf proceeds to tell Frodo about the One Ring of Sauron. Frodo learns it’s powers, the powers include making the bearer invisible and extremely insane over the ring. Gandalf includes that Sauron is going on a hunt for his long lost ring, and he will have to destroy the ring before Sauron retrieves it. Gandalf also mentions that he will be assigned the best of the best to help him destroy the ring in Mordor. Legolas, Gimle, Aragorn, and his best friend Sam are assigned to venture to Mordor.

                The importance of the fellowship (the assigned group to destroy the ring) affects the plot. When fighting a rogue group of Orcs, Sam and Frodo are separated from the other members. Tolkien makes it obvious to point out the fact of where they get separated. The book has a main theme that wouldn’t be valid if Tolkien hadn’t added the separation of the fellowship. The point of fighting against all odds, Frodo and Sam, two Hobbits, are able to destroy the ring through skill. Legolas, Gimle, and Aragorn are faced to track the two hobbits, thinking that they are dead. If the fellowship didn’t disassemble, then there wouldn’t be as much thrill to the plot, which Tolkien wanted throughout the entire Lord of the Rings books. Also the journey tested Frodo’s vigor and stamina. Also, Frodo was being tested throughout the whole book series, but it was this journey that tested Frodo truly.

                 The whole book is very inspiring, and yes, it can relate to the present world. People believe they can’t do what they need to do. Frodo was challenged; he was confronted by Gandalf and told to destroy one of the most powerful objects in all of Middle Earth. Anyone would be kind of overwhelmed. Someone commanding you to do someone that might contain lots of death, well no one would take that kindly. Besides, Frodo was extremely scared on going on the journey at first. But he thought of the benefits, which was in fact saving Middle Earth from Sauron. So he faced the problem face-first, and went on the journey. Also, he purposely left the fellowship so he could destroy his problem, he thought it to be. He took matters into his own hands to get rid of the ring. That is a lesson people should learn. Either if you are too nervous about performing a play, or too scared to speak in front of class, thinking of the benefits of trying to accomplish that one confrontation will help in advance.