Morgoth Essays

Red Badge of Courage Before the war Henry has romanticized ideas of glory and courage but when he nears war his courage falters and he tries to validation of his fear in his peers. When confronted with violence Henry is like a machine fighting off the enemy. This courage Henry had to stand his ground and fight disappeared at the second battle and Henry fled during the battle. The Red Badge of Courage follows Henry’s changing ideas of courage until he finds a lasting form of it. Henry search for courage

Atonement with the father is the ninth step; it is a stage when the father figure challenges the hero to become a new person (Campbell 110). The hero is able to improve as a person through this step. The atonement with the father of Gilgamesh would be when he meets Utnapistim. When Gilgamesh tells the reason of his journey, Utnapistim teaches him a life of a person with an immoral life so that Gilgamesh could learn uselessness in immoral life. Utnapistim purposely tests Gilgamesh to send him home

The DreamWorks animated film, How to Train Your Dragon is a movie about friendship and acceptance. Hiccup the main character, is a scrawny Viking, who isn’t looked at like the other Vikings are. He doesn’t want to harm or kill dragons like his father has done. The tagline for this movie is “One Adventure Will Change Two Worlds”. The main conflict in this movie is that the dragons are taking all of the village’s livestock, and we later find out that they were using the livestock to feed a huge dragon

bringing up Turin Turumbar and the Curse of Morgoth. The question that comes to mind when analyzing the story lines of Turin is whether or not Fate’s role in his life diminishes his individual responsibility, or does he truly have no choice in the actions he carries out and therefore the consequences of those actions. Who holds the blame for the tragedies that follow Turin throughout his life; Fate or himself? A story of tragedy is set for Turin the moment Morgoth curses Hurin and his kin. Throughout his

presence of the king, his father Finwe. He was put on trial by the Valar and was banished to Tirion for twelve years. He is later fatally wounded by Gothmog lord of the Balrogs. The problems in the story all revolve around Morgoth and the elves and their want for the Silmarils. Morgoth the main antagonist is in our world Satan. He lusts for the Silmarils. He wants them for his power. He uses Fingolfin to get turn Feanor and get the Silmarils. The setting of the story is Middle Earth and Vala. Vala is

From Morgoth to Sauron, the evolution of evil in J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology. Evil is mainly personified by two creatures in Tolkien’s mythology. Morgoth, the original evil, that came to exist before the creation of Middle-earth and Sauron, Morgoth’s faithful lieutenant which became the second dark lord after the imprisonment of his master. Morgoth reigned as the first dark lord during the first age of the world. The first age ended with his defeat. In the second age Sauron took Morgoth’s place as

The choice to become immortal is huge. In Tolkien’s writings we hear a lot of the elves and of men, but Half-Elves (also known as Peredhil) aren’t mentioned very often. Is that because humans and elves can’t marry? The answer is no there have been three marriages between the Eldar and the Edain. The reason we don’t hear about half elves is because they got to choose to either become an elf or a human. They don’t stay as Half-Elves they pick which race they want to be. The first human and elf marriage

world, there would be no source of greed, no desire for things that have no true value on their own. However, in Arda, just as in our world, greed will always exist because of a desire for power coupled with outside forces of corruption: notably, Morgoth and Sauron. As a result of the lies of these two characters, the Silmarils and the One Ring became the cause of corruption, betrayal, and death. With the creation of the Silmarils, Elves began to love “too well the work of [their] hands and the devices

At first when one thinks of Tolkien and O’Connor, they do not seem to have many things in common. One is a British author who writes about secondary worlds, with magical characters, where the other is an American Author who writes about ironic, darkly funny Southern Gothic stories that end grotesquely. In this class, we had the opportunity to read many different types of short stories that had multiple themes that expressed Catholic Worldview. For example, Flannery O’Connor who is the author of

John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R.) Tolkien is one of the most influential authors not only of the 20th century, but in the history of the medium. He wrote novels that have impacted millions of people, and his work practically created an entire genre. The reason for this impact on literature is undoubtedly the rich world that he set his novels in. Tolkien’s imaginary setting of Arda, where all of his most notable works are set, features a very detailed history, with entire languages and cultures populating

Now, just as the fate of evil is bound to spread like Melkor unto Morgoth and later Sauron, the fate of the One Ring’s passage to Frodo is quite similar. It was fate that caused the One Ring to fall into Bilbo’s hands, and it was destined for Frodo to carry the burden for him. However, is it also fate that caused Frodo

One might think it would be hard to analyze characters’ appearance judging only by their descriptions, but not in this case. One of the reasons why The Lord of The Rings trilogy quickly became a bestseller is the beautiful way Tolkien describes not only the environment, places of living, but also the characters. This, and the fact that he puts a big value into details when describing the characters, creates a truly amazing experience for every reader. One of the main races in the trilogy are the