elentari3018
Rohan
Apr 4, 2:00am
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The idea of evolution of bravery
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Or was the idea to look at how The Shire affects our Fab Four while they are away: determination ot save it; memories of it; attitudes and mindsets fostered by being of it's culture (both positive attitudes, and negative ones such as naievity and xenophobia)? Can definitely be in the lens of how The Shire affects our Fab Four and how they have reacted throughout the Quest and how they've changed. The four hobbits do not have typical 'stay at home" kind of attitude about Middle-earth and the Shire and we see many instances that we can illustrate in the text of how they were expected to react but have done something opposite or something not necessarily "hobbit-like".
We can also look at this from an outsider non hobbit perspective, say from Aragorn or Gandalf or Faramir or Galadriel and Elrond and see that they've surprised the "Great ones."
As Elrond said "This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise form their quiet fields to shake the towers and cousnesl of the Great."
"By Elbereth and Luthien the fair, you shall have neither the Ring nor me!" ~Frodo
"And then Gandalf arose and bid all men rise, and they rose, and he said: 'Here is a last hail ere the feast endeth. Last but not least. For I name now those who shall not be forgotten and without whose valour nought else that was done would have availed; and I name before you all Frodo of the Shire and Samwise his servant. And the bards and the minstrels should give them new names: Bronwe athan Harthad and Harthad Uluithiad , Endurance beyond Hope and Hope Unquenchable.." ~Gandalf, The End of the Third Age , from The History of Middle Earth series
"He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings."- Siege of Gondor, RotK
(This post was edited by elentari3018 on Apr 4, 2:01am)
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