The fellowship of the ring is similar to our world in many ways. Our evil "wizards" are murderers. They kill people, which creates emtional pain. Tolkien's evil wizards are similar, they kill, which creates emotional pain. However, murderers aren't typically after something, unlike Tolkien's evil wizards that want the ring. The ring and darknest symbolizes evil, in the movie. In our world, darknest symbolizes evil. For example, people feel the most afraid and vulnerable when they are in the dark. They assoicate the dark with being evil and having evil thigs hiding in it. In our world evil isn't represented by a ring, howver the devil does represent evil. I believe everyone thinks of the devil as evil. This is represented through movies, religion,