Friendship has been a recurring theme in almost all type of literature and is probably one of the easiest themes to work into a story. Tolkien, creator Lord of the Rings, learned friendship differently than how people in the twenty-first century learned friendship. Tolkien learned it through the first world war, on the battlefield, and in the trenches, this form of friendship shows in Tolkien’s work when the audience sees how he developed the bonds between his characters and how through their cooperative work they can defeat their enemies (Doughan). Similarly, George Lucas, creator of Star Wars, started creating his story during a time when people started banding together against a deceptive government (“George”). Lucas created characters that