The Introductory Paragraph for My Next Paper
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as most other texts that are concerned with the history of Middle-earth, can be considered part of one large body of text, one cohesive whole. The main character in the text is the liaison between the events in the book and the narrative tone inferred by the reader. The narrative tone is directly proportional to the intensity and the importance of the events that are taking place in the book. The main character makes formal reports to the reader about the status-quo of the narrative tone through the use of poetry, specifically the poem "The Road" in all its derivative forms. By juxtaposing the different forms of the poem to the different levels of life-experience had by the speaker at the time when the specific version is presented, and then analyzing the relationship between the two, a chronology of the maturation of the main character can be realized.