Homework#6 Tuesday Mountains as symbols

In the Hobbit and throughout the Lord of the Rings the Misty Mountains can symbolize several things. However the most prominent meaning of the mountains was that it all started with a Dark Lord and essentially a Mountain. Before the Hobbit Sauron got jealous and  made his own ring of power to rule the others in Mt.Doom then he goes to conquer. Isildur defeats him and takes the ring but it corrupts him so he keeps it until he is killed by a raid. He drops it in the river and Golum's friend finds it.  It corrupts Golum and he goes to the misty mountains where it is later picked up by a young Bilbo who fell ( literally off a cliff) in the goblin caves (in a certain part of the misty Mts.) when he is on a quest to help the dwarves get rid of a greedy dragon out of their home (which is a Mountain). After all of this he came back home until he decided he was leaving to live with the elves and Frodo found it who now the Dark Lord is after because Gollum told them where to find him.  So he had to go on a journey to destory it back at Mt. Doom again. So ultimately the mountain is a symbol for  the Beginning and the end of both the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit.

Another book is "Cold Mountain" the mountain is a symbol of both love and survival. The main characters  Ada and Inman are in love and she promises to wait for him on her fathers farm that is going down hill fast because of his death while Inman deserts the confederate army after an "slight" injury to come back to her. Ada has no idea how to do anything because she was spoiled and has nothing put up for winter so she has to try survive through a harsh Appalachian winter with Ruby who learned to survive on her own because her father would leave for months at a time. Inman has to make it back to Cold Montain and survive the winter without being caught by bounty hunters who catch deserters.

In Rambo the Mountains symbolized the advantage that Rambo had against the police officers who were trying to catch him even though he didn't do anything wrong. Although there were many of them and lots of weapons and only one of him he had more experience and training plus the higher ground of the mountain.