This week we talked about "The Hero's Journey", a story telling device/ pattern used by many authors. This follows the cycle of a character growing and experiencing throughout the story, and eventually making there way back to where their quest began ever different and ready to go again. I decided to go back and revisit the Lord of the Rings novel series, as well as The Hobbit, since these movies follow The Hero's Journey very closely.
In the beginning he is innocent, unknowing of the world outside of the shire. Before he is called to leave and adventure out into the world, a moment of awakening must first happen. Of course he follows his heart to do the right thing to adventure with his pals, going through trials and hardships along the way, Only to eventually be betrayed by someone he once trusted. These are all common things in The Hero’s Journey, this is a constant cycle of different challenges a character must face, either big of small in some degree in almost all storytelling media.
These tropes usually start with a character that has been unlucky in life, never privileged, and never had parents. They have a very weird circumstance leading him to give them this unprivileged life like someone out to kill them or something happening when they were born. Frodo was an orphan. Of course they become the right age, the age of puberty or maturity to start on their journey or adventure to adulthood. And of course by the end, the main character is reborn when the conflict is over and a new one continues.
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