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lord of the ring

Volumes:
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

Author J. R. R. Tolkien
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre High fantasy,
Adventure novel,
Heroic romance
Publisher Geo. Allen & Unwin
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by philologist J.R.R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien’s earlier, less complex children’s fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937), but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949, much of it during World War II. Although generally known to readers as a trilogy, Tolkien initially intended it as one volume of a three volume set, with the other volumes to be The Silmarillion and Akallabêth; however, the other works were never fully completed and the publisher released in 1954-55 The Lord of the Rings as three books rather than one, for economic reasons. It has since been reprinted countless times and translated into many different languages, becoming one of the most popular and influential works in 20th-century literature.

Plot
he story begins in the Shire, as Frodo Baggins inherits the ring from Bilbo; both are unaware of its origins. Gandalf the Grey, who is Olórin of the race of the Maiar (In Unfinished Tales it is suggested that Gandalf is in fact Manwe, but that is not certain), learns some of the Ring’s history and advises Frodo to take the Ring away from the Shire. Frodo leaves with his loyal gardener, Samwise “Sam” Gamgee, and two cousins, Merry and Pippin, to help him. On their dangerous journey, they run into many difficulties and are pursued by the Ringwraiths. Various characters give aid along the way, including Tom Bombadil and a disguised Aragorn, Isildur’s heir and rightful king of Gondor. At Weathertop, Frodo is wounded by the Ringwraiths, but eventually they are unhorsed and forced to seek new disguises by the flood waters at the Ford of Bruinen, controlled by Elrond, master of Rivendell.

Frodo recovers under the care of Elrond. The Council of Elrond reveals much significant history and current news about Sauron and the Ring, including the escape of Gollum from Mirkwood and the corruption of the wizard Saruman. The council decides that the threat of Sauron is too great and the only course of action is to destroy the Ring in Mordor. Frodo volunteers to take the Ring, and a “Fellowship of the Ring” is chosen to accompany him.

The company is forced to travel through the Mines of Moria, where they are attacked by Orcs. Gandalf fights a Balrog of Morgoth and falls into a deep chasm. The others escape and take refuge in Lothlórien. With boats and gifts from the Lady Galadriel, the company then travel down the great River Anduin to the Amon Hen. There, Boromir, heir to the current Steward of Gondor, attempts to take the ring from Frodo, who then breaks from the Fellowship and continues the trek to Mordor accompanied only by Sam.

Saruman’s orcs attack, killing Boromir and kidnapping Merry and Pippin. Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas pursue the Orcs and encounter Gandalf, who is now “Gandalf the White”. Merry and Pippin escape when the Orcs are slain by the Rohirrim and find themselves in Fangorn where they befriend the tree-like Ents. Gandalf travels with the others to rouse Théoden King of the Rohirrim to take a stand against Saruman’s armies at Helm’s Deep. At the subsequent Battle of Hornburg, Saruman’s armies are defeated.

Merry and Pippin motivate the Ents to destroy Saruman’s remaining forces at Isengard. Gandalf, Théoden and the others head to Isengard. Saruman refuses to see his error, and Gandalf strips Saruman of his rank and most of his power. Pippin looks into a seeing-stone Sauron used to communicate with Saruman — alerting Sauron to the presence of the hobbit. Gandalf takes Pippin to Gondor.

Frodo and Sam capture Gollum and convince him to guide them to Mordor. They travel a long and hard road, briefly aided by Boromir’s brother Faramir. Gollum betrays Frodo by leading him to the great spider Shelob in the tunnels of Cirith Ungol. Frodo is left unconscious by Shelob’s bite, but Sam fights her off using Sting and the vial of Ëarendil’s star — one of Galadriel’s gifts. Sam, believing Frodo to be dead, takes the Ring, and Frodo is carried to the tower of Cirith Ungol by Orcs.

Sauron begins his military assault upon Gondor, with the Witch-king of Angmar, greatest of the Ringwraiths, leading a huge army into battle against Gondor.

Gandalf arrives at Minas Tirith in Gondor with Pippin to alert the city of the impending attack. Pippin becomes one of the Guards of the Citadel of Minas Tirith, while Merry becomes esquire to the King of the Rohirrim. Aragorn takes Gimli and Legolas through the Paths of the Dead and raises an undead army, oath breakers who betrayed Gondor and Isildur; he uses these in turn to defeat the armies of the Corsairs of Umbar in southern Gondor, enabling the region’s forces to sail to the battle at Minas Tirith. Gandalf assists in the battles against the armies of Sauron, including the Siege of Minas Tirith. Denethor, Ruling Steward of Gondor, believing both his sons are dead loses hope and commits suicide. With the timely aid of Rohan’s cavalry and Aragorn’s reinforcements a significant portion of Sauron’s army is defeated. Théoden is slain, and the Witch-king of Angmar is slain by Théoden’s niece Éowyn and Merry.

Sauron retains innumerable forces in Mordor, and the main characters head to a climactic battle at the Black Gate, where the alliance of Gondor and Rohan fight desperately against Sauron’s armies, hoping to divert Sauron’s focus away from Mount Doom, which Frodo must reach in order to destroy the Ring.

Sam rescues Frodo from captivity. They make their way through Mordor and reach Mount Doom. At the edge of the Cracks of Doom in Samath Naur, the Ring proves too great for Frodo; and he claims it for himself. Gollum struggles with Frodo for the Ring, biting off Frodo’s finger and then falling into the fire. The Ring is destroyed. Sauron is banished from the world, his armies lose all morale, the Ringwraiths disintegrate, and the war ends.

Aragorn is crowned king of Gondor and marries Arwen, the daughter of Elrond. Saruman escapes his captivity in Orthanc and enslaves the Shire. The returning Hobbits overthrow him in The Battle of Bywater. Sam helps to restore order, and using his gifts from Galadriel he beautifies the land. Sam marries Rosie Cotton. Frodo remains wounded in body and spirit and, accompanied by Bilbo and Gandalf, sails west over the Sea to the Undying Lands, where he can find peace. Sam, Merry, and Pippin return home where Sam eventually becomes Mayor and is bestowed the role of Counsellor of the North-kingdom by Aragorn. After Rosie’s death Sam himself leaves behind the Red Book of Westmarch with his daughter and crosses over the sea, the last of the Ring bearers.

Characters
* Bilbo Baggins, the titular protagonist, a respectable, conservative hobbit. While travelling, Bilbo often refers to the contents of his larder at home and wishes he had more food. Until he finds the magic ring, he takes on tasks set out for him only reluctantly. Bilbo’s manner is informal and his speech colloquial and modern. The story follows an arc of Bilbo’s growing capability, independence of action and sense of community.
* Gandalf, an itinerant wizard who introduces Bilbo to a company of thirteen dwarves, later disappearing and re-appearing at key points in the story. While Gandalf is wise, his knowledge is limited, and he is out to serve his own purposes while only incidentally assisting the dwarves.
* Thorin Oakenshield, pompous head of the company of dwarves and heir to a dwarven kingdom under the Lonely Mountain. Thorin’s leadership is inept, often relying on Gandalf or Bilbo to get him out of trouble, but he proves himself a mighty warrior.
* Smaug, a dragon who long ago pillaged the dwarven kingdom of Thorin’s grandfather and sleeps upon the vast treasure. In many ways the Smaug episode reflects and references the dragon of Beowulf, and Tolkien uses the episode to put into practice some of the ground-breaking literary theories he had developed about the Anglo-Saxon poem and its portrayal of the dragon as having bestial intelligence rather than being of purely symbolic value.[7] Smaug the dragon and his golden hoard may be seen as a symbol of the traditional relationship between evil and metallurgy as collated in the depiction of Pandæmonium with its “Belched fire and rolling smoke” in Milton’s Paradise Lost.[8] Of all the characters, Smaug’s speech is the most modern, using idioms such as “Don’t let your imagination run away with you!”

The plot involves a host of other characters of varying importance, such as the twelve other dwarves of the company; two types of elves, both puckish and more serious warrior types; men (humans); trolls with “cockney” accents; cave-dwelling goblins; forest-dwelling giant spiders who can speak; immense and heroic eagles who also speak; evil wolves who are allied with the goblins; Elrond the sage; Gollum, a mysterious creature inhabiting an underground lake; Beorn, a man who can assume bear form; and Bard the Bowman, a heroic archer of Lake-town.
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5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
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9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
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37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
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42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
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56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
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The book’s underlying theme is the need to study Israeli history within multiple and overlapping comparative frameworks. The benefit of comparison is not limited to a richer understanding of the circumstances under which Israel was born and has developed. Rather, an open-ended, comparative approach offers a useful means of correcting the biases found in so much scholarship on Israel, be it sympathetic or hostile. Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective will appeal to scholars and students with research interests in many fields, including Israeli Studies, Middle East Studies, and Jewish Studies.

ISBN: 9780415400367
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 12/5/2007
Format: Hardcover (240×158mm)
Language: English
Pages: 287

Turmoil in the Middle East has escalated to unprecedented levels in the twenty-first century. Opposing cultural, religious, and political forces have resumed old conflicts and spawned new ones, fighting with words and images as well as bombs and bullets. The path toward peace and reconciliation seems further away and less clear than ever. Stephen Eric Bronner’s “Peace Out of Reach” is both a deeply personal account and a careful analysis of the crises currently threatening the cradle of civilization. Bronner’s insights into Middle Eastern tensions are significantly enhanced by his extensive travels in the region. Equally informed by scholarly research and conscientious engagement, Bronner critically evaluates the motivations and actions of the powerful players on the Middle Eastern stage. “Peace Out of Reach” challenges policymakers to build bridges, recognize common interests, foster genuine diplomacy, and seek realistically navigable roads to lasting peace, rather than resort to propaganda, threats, and military actions.

Reviewed by Michele Heather Pollock
The political and ideological conflicts plaguing the Middle East are currently of immense interest to the world. The United States is engaged in two wars there, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and trouble is brewing in other nations of the Middle East as well. It is not difficult to find news clips, sound bytes, and even occasionally longer considerations of crises in the Middle East, but it might sometimes be difficult to more deeply consider the implications of the troubles there and the Western World’s actions and reactions to it.
Stephen Eric Bronner has a very specific perspective on the conflicts in the Middle East. He is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, and a well-known peace activist. And while his firm convictions against war have obviously influenced his thinking in his book Peace Out of Reach, he raises many questions that should be interesting to most people, even those who do not agree with his political views.

Through a series of eleven essays, Bronner takes you along with him on a tour of the Middle East, through Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Palestine – and then “the Middle East spills over” into the Sudan and Darfur, where Islam collides with Christianity in civil war. Bronner travels with groups of academics and engages in what is known as “citizen diplomacy,” where delegations of American citizens meet unofficially with officials and intellectuals of nations fearful of belligerency by the US.

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Publication Date: 6/29/2007
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<strong>Early life</strong>
Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan on 8 November, 1954, the son of Shigeo Ishiguro, an oceanographer, and his wife Shizuko. In 1960 his family, including his two sisters, moved to Guildford, Surrey so that his father could work on oil development in the North Sea. He attended Stoughton Primary School and then Woking County Grammar School in Surrey. After finishing school he took a ‘gap year’ and travelled through America and Canada, whilst writing a journal and sending demo tapes to record companies.

in 1974 he began studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, and he graduated in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts (honours) in English and Philosophy. After spending a year writing fiction, he resumed his studies at the University of East Anglia where he gained a Master of Arts in Creative Writing.<strong>Kazuo Ishiguro: A Timeline</strong>
1954 (8th November) born; Nagasaki, Japan
1960 moved to Great Britain
1973 worked as grouse beater for Queen Mother at Balmoral Castle; Aberdeen, Scotland
1976 community worker, Renfrew Social Works Department; Renfrew, Scotland
1978 received B.A. (with honors) from University of Kent
1979-80 residential social worker, West London Cyrenians Ltd.; London, England
1980 received M.A. from University of East Anglia
1981 began authorial career with contribution to Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers
1982 published A Pale View of Hills (later included among “notable books of 1982″ by American Library Association)
resettlement worker, West London Cyrenians Ltd.
1983 Winifred Holtby Award from Royal Society of Literature (for A Pale View of Hills )
1984 writer’s bursary from the Arts Council of Great Britain
1984 television script, A Profile of Arthur J. Mason, broadcast
1986 television script, The Gourmet, broadcast
1989 The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, film rights purchased by Harold Pinter
1995 The Unconsoled,

<strong>Literary characteristics</strong>
A number of his novels are set in the past. His most recent, <a href=”http://booksuread.com/?p=4″ title=”Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker Winning novel Never Let Me Go”>Never Let Me Go</a>, had science fiction qualities and a futuristic tone; however, the given time period is the late 1990s, and thus takes place in an alternate, though very similar, world. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, takes place in an unnamed Central European city. The Remains of the Day is set in the large country house of an English lord, in the period leading up to, and the period after, the Second World War.

An Artist of the Floating World is set in Ishiguro’s home town of Nagasaki during the period of reconstruction following the detonation of the atomic bomb there in 1945. The narrator is forced to come to terms with his part in the Second World War. He finds himself blamed by the new generation who accuse him of being part of Japan’s misguided foreign policy, and is forced to confront the ideals of the modern times as represented in his grandson.

The novels are written in the first-person narrative style and the narrators often exhibit human failings. Ishiguro’s technique is to allow these characters to reveal their flaws implicitly during the narrative. The author thus creates a sense of pathos by allowing the reader to see the narrator’s flaws while being drawn into sympathy with him. That pathos is often derived from the narrator’s actions, or, more often, inaction. In The Remains of the Day, the butler Stevens fails to act on his romantic feelings toward the housekeeper Miss Kenton because he fails to reconcile his sense of service and his personal life.

The novels end without a sense of resolution. The issues his characters confront are buried in the past, and those issues remain unresolved. Thus Ishiguro ends many of his novels on a note of melancholic resignation, whereby his characters accept their past and who they have become, and find comfort in that realization by a relief from mental anguish. This can be seen as a literary reflection on the Japanese idea of mono no aware.

<strong>Ishiguro and Japan</strong>
Although Ishiguro was born in Japan, has a Japanese name, and set his first two novels in Japan, in several interviews he has had to clarify to the reading audience that he has little familiarity with Japanese writing and that his works bear little resemblance to Japanese fiction. In a 1990 interview he said, “if I wrote under a pseudonym and got somebody else to pose for my jacket photographs, I’m sure nobody would think of saying, ‘This guy reminds me of that Japanese writer.’”[3] Although some Japanese writers have had a distant influence on his writing—Jun’ichirō Tanizaki is the one he most frequently names—Ishiguro has said that Japanese films, especially those of Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse, have been a more significant influence.[4]

Ishiguro left Japan in 1960 at the age of 5 and did not return until 1989, nearly 30 years later, as a participant in the Japan Foundation Short-Term Visitors Program. In an interview with Kenzaburo Oe, Ishiguro acknowledged that the Japanese setting of his first two novels was “imaginary”: “I grew up with a very strong image in my head of this other country, a very important other country to which I had a strong emotional tie… in England I was all the time building up this picture in my head, an imaginary Japan.”[5]

<strong>Literary Prizes</strong>
He was featured in the first two Granta Best of Young British Novelists: 1983 and 1993.

He won the Whitbread Prize in 1986 for his second novel, An Artist of the Floating World.

He won the Booker Prize in 1989 for his third novel, The Remains of the Day. An Artist of the Floating World, When We Were Orphans and his most recent book, <a href=”http://booksuread.com/?p=4″ title=”Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker Winning novel Never Let Me Go”>Never Let Me Go</a>, were all short-listed for the Booker Prize, with the latter being named the runner-up.

In 1998, he was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.

On Time magazine’s 2005 list of the 100 greatest English language books since the magazine formed in 1923, <a href=”http://booksuread.com/?p=4″ title=”Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker Winning novel Never Let Me Go”>Never Let Me Go</a> was the most recently published book on the list.

<strong>Works</strong>

<u>Novels</u>
* A Pale View of Hills (1982)
* An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
* The Remains of the Day (1989)
* The Unconsoled (1995)
* When We Were Orphans (2000)
* <a href=”http://booksuread.com/?p=4″ title=”Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker Winning novel Never Let Me Go”>Never Let Me Go</a> (2005)

<u>Screenplays</u>
* A Profile of Arthur J. Mason (Original Screenplay for Channel 4)[8] [9] (1984)
* The Gourmet (Original Screenplay for the BBC; the script was later published in Granta 43) [10] (1987)
* The Saddest Music in the World (Original Screenplay) (2003)
* The White Countess (Original Screenplay) (2005)

<u>Short fiction</u>
* Three short stories in Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers (1981)
* Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (2009)

<strong>References</strong>
1. ^ Author’s bio. Granta 43 (1993). p. 91.
2. ^ a b c d e f Barry Lewis (2000). Kazuo Ishiguro, Manchester University Press.
3. ^ Interview with Allan Vorda and Kim Herzinger. “Stuck on the Margins: An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro.” Face to Face: Interviews with Contemporary Novelists. Rice University Press, 1994. p. 25. (ISBN 0-8926-3323-9)
4. ^ Interview with Gregory Mason. “An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro.” Contemporary Literature XXX.3 (1989). p. 336.
5. ^ Interview with Kenzaburo Oe. “The Novelist in Today’s World: A Conversation.” boundary 2 18.3 (1991) p. 110.
6. ^ “Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists”. Retrieved on 2008-05-06.
7. ^ “Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2″. Retrieved on 2008-05-06.
8. ^ “Profile: Kazuo Ishiguro”. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
9. ^ “A Profile of Arthur J. Mason (1984) (TV)”. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
10. ^ “The Gourmet (1984) (TV)”. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.

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