Achetypes In The Lord of the rings

There are a decent amount of archetypes in "The Lord of the Rings"

For example there are many examples of the shadow in the "Lord of the Rings". Two examples are gollum and bilbo gollum constantly guides frodo and sam beacause he wants to take the ring for himself. He has split personalities its like gollum is the evil side pulling at him and smegol is the good side. In the beggining of the trilogy we see the nice side of smegol and in the end we see a normal person driven to madness over a ring.

With Bilbo we see him as a loving caring person who looks after frodo...yet he is not a very social person. When he discovers the ring it starts to drive him mad so much that the normal loving caring person becomes a monster when he lashes out trying to take the ring from Frodo.

Another Archetype is the wise old man Gandalf deals lots of advice in the story to frodo which help frodo accomplish is task...as i was looking up quotes that would fit the wise old man i came across this one..."Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement." This reminded me so much of our world today so many innocent people are being killed while the cruel and unruley roam the streets free. Our world sees things in many different colors and shades but I think that they look to the elderly for advice because they have experienced life. Even when they did not expect danger or accusations or moments that they had to be heroic it didnt matter it was just thrown at them and they dealt with it.

other arcytypes: laziness, light and darkness, fire and water, and The Gardener(Sam Wise) were some.