The Social Messages in the Lord of the Rings

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i hope to show how critics has misinterpretation women's role in the novel by giving my own opinions. I will show women's actual side in the novel.

The female characters that appear in Tolkien's work are criticized for their passivity, insignificance, and stereotypical roles. The trilogy written by a male author has a huge effect on female characters. It is definitely true that LOTR centers mainly male characters, with only three or four female characters have an important part to play. The author created powerful male characters in the novel. However, these powerful male characters are suppressed by the more powerful female characters that Tolkien created. It shows us his feminist side. King of Angmar who is commander of Mordor region and also known as Nazgul is one of the strong male character in the novel. It is said that in the film or in the novel no man can kill him. However, Tolkien demonstrates us in Minas

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aim: a life should dedicate to peace.

Tolkien's theme for peace can be seen among the memories in his soldier life. On his book, Gregory Bassham has qualified the six elements of the keys to happiness in Middle-earth: delight in simple things, making light of one's troubles, getting personal, cultivating good character, cherishing and creating beauty, and rediscovering wonder (Bassham 49).

Eowyn also is an expansive character who embodies different emotions like fear, pride, hopeless and anger. Many characters like Aragorn, Faramir, Frodo or Samwell are not given the opportunity to embody these emotions. By saying all this argument, i would like to highlight critic's misread ...

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