Fatal flaw

We read book and watch movies. In them we have characters who are people. They have fatal flaws that make them less than perfect.  But in the books by J.R.R Tolkien you find that whole races are less than perfect. The elves of middle earth are prideful and that is their fatal flaw. They get themselves in to trouble with this pride and it kind of leads to the fact that the ring is still there.

 One great fatal flaw is the dwarfs love for precious metals and gems. It leads to the lost of two of their great cities. Moria and the lonely mountain, both which are lost due to their greed of. Moria they dug to deep, and awoke both goblins and a beast of the deep. While in the lonely mountain the great metals brought a dragon to their door step which drove them out.  The dwarfs tried to reclaim both, Moria was a good try but in the end it is lost. The lonely mountain is reclaimed and they get that but the dwarfs have to split the gold.

The humans of middle earth are power hungry and that is there fatal flaw. It leads to them being easily corrupted by power and the one ring.  You see that with the ruler of Gondor and the ring which he takes for himself and is kind of his death.  It is the fear of most that if the ring was to fall into the hands of a human the war and middle earth, would be lost. The ring doesn’t fall into the humans hand but of that of the hobbits.

Hobbits are very simple folk. In the books they don’t have a fatal flaw. They can’t be corrupted by power, greed or pride. They are simple folk, who just want to live in peace. What you find is that hobbits are what we might find as pure innocents. With the fact that in stature they are like children. Where they live the worst thing that can happen is you miss a meal, or are too much of an outgoing person. When I think of both the hobbit and the lord of the rings, I think for hobbits as the pure folk of middle earth. The ones that no one thinks of; all hobbits want is just a nice place and a good meal.