Obviously, the greatest example of evil in The Hobbit is the Ring.
It draws Bilbo to itself and in the Lord of the Rings is the ultimate form of
evil other than Sauron himself. The Ring also makes you paranoid about its safety
and think that others are going to take it for themselves. Gollum was extremely
protective of the ring and when he knew it was lost he went insane and was
ready to murder to get it back.
In the Hobbit thought, there is another
force almost as strong as the ring, the Arkenstone. Thorin wants the Arkenstone
above all the treasure in Erebor with a passion that with time, could rival
Gollum’s lust for the ring. Thorin's father wandered Middle Earth for the remainder
of his life because he went insane after he lost it. When Thorin sees that
Bilbo has “betrayed him” he seemingly goes insane, forbids Bilbo from coming
back, and swears that they will never be comrades again.
I had never previously thought about the
Ring and the Arkenstone being like each other. Now the more I think about it
the more they have in common.
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