Hope In J. R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings

In Tolkien’s new type of fiction, he expresses the hope that is blended with his faith and shows it to the people during the time with tension and depression. In 1915, Tolkien went to France to fight in World War I, and he lost the majority of his school friends in the Battle of Somme, which caused a profound impact upon the young Tolkien. As a writer, Tolkien was significantly unique than others because Tolkien faced the actual war, and he had the searing experiences of survival from the death. He learned what is desperation from the war and he says, “I remember miles and miles of seething, tortured earth, perhaps best described in the chapters[The Lord of the Rings] about approaches to Mordor”(Morrow 166). However, before he went to the war, he married his wife, Edith, after many years of waiting. Because of his Edit, home and belief in Christianity, he always hold the hope and did not give up when he was in the desperation, which made him survive. Later on, he was inspired by his survival and express the hope in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by many tragic and bloody battles between good and evil. When the Middle-Earth is dominated by the evil, the power of Sauron, every man, and elf’s hope is on Frodo and his mission; however, Frodo’s hope repose on his homeland and his friends and he says, “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam”(Tolkien 248).