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So determining that there is no "hero", per se, who is the main character? Sauron, the anti-hero, is the Ring, and, as mentioned before, the Ring is the central point of the book.
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Actually, I always thought of the Ring as more of the object focus, rather than a character--a talisman that drives the characters of the story, rather than the main point. Without subjects to influence, Sauron and the Ring would disappear or fade back into the nothingness that Morgoth inhabits currently. No, I'll stick with Frodo! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Also, I wouldn't say there are
no heroes in LOTR but that there are too many to count, from the unlikely Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, who undergoes her own journey through hardship to come out with a new understanding to the last of the Rohirrim on the road to the Pelennor Fields, to Pippin skewering the troll at the Gate of Morannon to save his friend Beregond to the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain and the Elves of Lothlorien staving off the attacks from Dol Guldur that we don't even hear much about...Middle Earth is full of heroes at the end of the Third Age, but their fates all revolve around what Frodo does. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Cheers,
Lyta