Imagine having a whole civilizations fate resting on your shoulders. Because you are carrying a ring that has been lost for centuries and you find it and have to get rid of it the twist it can only be destroyed one way …….. in a volcano to be exact …show more content…
Because of his heritage of his father ring and on the way to destroy his father's ring he has to learn how to defend himself and how to survive by himself. It’s not so easy if you have a whole army of you that wants the ring for themselves there for making a war go on even though they could go on with peace. That is what links my character to this thesis that war is pointless. This is important because it shows how many people die just by going to war which is way more than if you didn’t. War is the reason why today's society is bad because we are losing innocent lives just by fighting.
Authors often use symbolism in their stories to help their readers through the story and to help them know what's important. In this series the ring that frodo holds is a symbol of evil and how it corrupts you if you do its bidding. In this story if you put on the ring you do what it wanted you to do and then it takes over your body making you want to control all others or drives you mad and makes you run away. The symbol of the ring also became a symbol of war and until it was destroyed people would be at constant war and the evil would be winning and that’s how the ring ties into the thesis that war is