![]() The second chapter is concerned with the shepherding figures of Galadriel and Gandalf and how they help deliver the redemption concerned with Frodo and Aragorn in the third chapter. ![]() The first chapter concerns the fallacy of humanity within Tolkien’s myth, precisely through Túrin, the downfall of Númenor and Boromir and how redemption is achieved for their crimes. This dissertation is concerned with the Christian and Pagan elements within the redemptive journeys of a select number of characters in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. ![]() In my opinion Tolkien is one of the foremost literary geniuses of the 20th century, a man who was creating a myth that was to spawn other myths and remain enduring hence my choice of subject for the dissertation. Hand in hand with the love for anything Tolkien rose my interest into mythology and the fantastic, the classical fairy tale from childhood and the mystical. Since then I have explored Tolkien’s works thoroughly, expanding beyond The Lord of the Rings into his other books such as The Hobbit, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales amongst others. Tolkien’s fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings I was swept up into the mania surrounding anything fantasy. When I had first heard of Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of J.R.R.
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