fellowship of the ring book review

Fellowship of the Ring book review

This is a book of mythic proportions about what earth was and what people were before the rise of one kind, mankind.  Mankind is represented as one race and there is no racism, but a founded bigotry.  Nothing is so just because people feel it should be.

Men have a royalty that has died out and their strength is waning due to greed.  Dwarves are even being overcome by greed (mostly seen in the Hobbit).  Elves are ethereal and wise, but do not hold the answers to all and they answer only to themselves.  Hobbits do not have a royalty and they are the only ones without it.  They do have a form of currency and class, but there is not a greed because there is not a leader of great wealth.  They simply do as they wish.  They do not allow their own kind to hunger.  They are the base and simple people that we should all aspire to be.  They are what mankind started out as.  They are man in his original and uncorrupted state.  They are not lazy, but they do find much pleasure in living and do not seek to rush through.  They value every day.

65, “The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.” Gandalf to Frodo.

82, “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. . . you step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”  Bilbo to Frodo.

303, “This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.  Who of all the Wise could have foreseen it?  Or, if they are wise, why should they expect to know it, until the hour has struck?”  Elrond to Frodo.