In nine pages the theme of identity is considered within the context of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, and The Fellowship of the Ring with a comparison to George Orwell's Animal Farm drawn. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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identity. They embark on some journey, some challenge that allows them to rediscover who they are, essentially finding their way back to their identity. In Tolkiens "The Lord of the
Rings" we have three books which detail this type of journey as it involves many different characters. In the following paper we examine the first two books of the trilogy,
those being "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers." The paper focuses on particular characters and how their journey through the novels is really a journey to rediscover,
or discover, themselves. The Fellowship of the Ring In "The Fellowship of the Ring" we begin the story with a simple hobbit named Frodo and his friend
and also adopted uncle Bilbo. Anyone who knows of Bilbos tale in "The Hobbit" will know that in "The Fellowship of the Ring" he is desperately seeking his own identity,
and identity away from the ring. The ring has controlled him for fifty years. It has controlled his thoughts, his actions, and his desires. Ever since finding the ring he
has never been the simple hobbit he once was. In this respect we see his journey away from Frodo and Gandalf to be a journey towards finding himself once again.
Now, this is not to say that he will ever become what he once was, for this is impossible due to the fact that he has encountered the ring and
it will always have some power over him. What it means is that he will regain himself without the complete and obsessive power of the ring hovering forever nearby.
Frodo is another character who will set out on a journey he has no concept of, in terms of its end or its danger. He is a simple hobbit, as