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Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many
By Hillman
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By Hillman
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Illuminating the central struggle in The Lord of the Rings to deepen understanding of the whole of Tolkien’s legendarium
In this remarkable work of close reading and analysis, Thomas P. Hillman gets to the heart of the tension between pity and the desire for power in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. As the book traces the entangled story of the One Ring and its effects, we come to understand Tolkien’s central paradox: while pity is necessary for destroying the Ring, it cannot sav...