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Article: From isolation to community: Frodo's incomplete personal quest in The Lord of the Rings.(Character overview)
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- Mythlore
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- September 22, 2006
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In his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell describes a common protagonist found in the myths of all the world's cultures down through time. These universal heroes, under many different guises and many different names, all undertake a similar journey regardless of the time or place in which they appear. The protagonist begins at home in what may be described as an immature state, goes on some kind of quest, and in the final stage comes home changed. This journey involves a departure from a safe and familiar place, initiation into a larger unknown world where there are trials and testing, some form of death and rebirth, and then finally return and ...
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