Review time!
The thing I'm most concerned with remembering is the entire hero cycle, so I'm going to try to do it from memory with everybody's favorite Hobbit, Frodo Baggins!
I: Departure
1) Call to Adventure -- *Gandalf voice* You must take the ring to the elves!
2) Refusal -- I don't remember him refusing to carry the ring. I'll have to re-read it
3) Unexpected Aid -- I'm thinking when Aragorn shows up and saves them at the inn
4) 1st Threshold -- if I remember right, he specifically mentions that it's the farthest he's ever been from the Shire at some point. Maybe that was Sam though
5) Belly of the Whale -- getting stabbed. Not much fun. Or maybe when Gandalf dies?
II: Initiation
1) Road of Trials -- separated from the group (except Sam) and making a long scary journey
2) Meeting with Goddess -- elves and Galadriel?
3) Woman as Temptress -- MIA
4) Atonement with Father -- seeing Bilbo again maybe?
5) Apotheosis -- overcoming the power of the ring!
6) Ultimate Boon -- ring is destroyed, yay!
III: Return
1) Refusal -- (we're going to die up here on Mt. Doom, Sam!)
2) Magic Flight -- could it be more obvious? Eagles!
3) Rescue from Without -- eagles take the hobbits to the elves. Elves have magical medicine. And lots of food.
4) 2nd Threshold -- returning to elves/Shire/civilization/not being possessed by evil ring
5) Master of Two Worlds -- savior of known world and Hobbit Extraordinaire
6) Freedom to Live -- elf boat
Great connections - you've got a great start to your final paper with all this... if you decide to stick with LOTR, that is.
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