Instructions

Hello Seventh Period!

For your ORB written assignment, I am requiring you to make three postings about your ORB to this blog. You must choose three different options from the "blogging options" handout (on First Class). I am looking for superb commentary, which should make obvious why your ORB "educates your conscience."

Please, adhere to the expectations explained on the rubric (also on First Class).

Happy blogging!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The Fellowship of the Ring- List

One Gross-144. The number of people Bilbo invited to his birthday "Together we score on hundred and forty-four. Your numbers were chosen to fit this remarkable total: One Gross, if I may use the expression...Many of the guests were insulted, feeling sure they had only been asked to fill up the required number. 'One Gross, indeed!'" (38).
Black Rider- a mysterious hooded horseman. They are dressed entirely in black and ride a skeletal horse. These shadowmen have been following Frodo and company.
The Ring- a magical ring, forged by Sauron in Mt. Doom. It contains all of his malice and hatred. Bilbo found it long ago by chance and has passed it on to Frodo. It has the power of invisibility.
Sauron- the evil lord of old. He resides in the East and awaits the return of his ring and thus the return of his full power.
Hobbit- small, hairy people. They live in hills and love to eat and garden. They do not like any change--order is normalcy, and normalcy is comfort "for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt" (10).

Three Rings for Elven-kings under sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

This is the spell of the Ring and brings together the entire plot of the book.

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