Lord of the Rings | Social Concerns
Frodo makes important discoveries about the world very much as Bilbo did in The Hobbit (1937), but in The Lord of the Rings the ante has been upped considerably. The range of cultures to which Frodo must adjust has been greatly enlarged, as has the importance of that adjustment. Where Bilbo confronted the existence of evil on a relatively limited scale in the person of the dragon Smaug, Frodo must confront an absolute, all-consuming evil in Sauron. Although Bilbo was forced to grow and change, he and his allies were defined as essentially good throughout The Hobbit....
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