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A five page paper which considers whether Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring follows the model of the heroic romantic quest, with reference to the transformation of the hero and other elements of quest literature. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Tolkiens The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of the trilogy of the Lord of the Rings, could be said to have
some significant elements which place in firmly in the literary model of the romantic heroic quest tradition, although it does differ from this model in some respects. Macnamara (2002), for
example, asserts than one of the essential elements of the literary romantic quest is the search to find or retrieve a treasure which has been lost. This is the central
theme of the Arthurian grail myths, for instance.
However, in The Fellowship of the Ring, the quest is not to find the lost treasure, but to destroy it. In the traditional quest,
the lost item has, or symbolises, some virtuous qualities: the grail, a sword, a maiden, and so on. In Tolkiens tale, the central item has not only already been found,
it is, although powerful, inherently evil and corrupt and the journey which the protagonists undertake is not to redeem it but to put it beyond reach. It could also be
said that whilst the aim is to lose the Ring forever, what will be gained as a result is peace and safety for the inhabitants of Middle Earth.
It is true,
however, that in the course of the story other items are found or regained, Aragorns re-forged sword Anduril being the obvious example. The interrelationship of the natural world and the
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