Rite Of Passage In Lord Of The Rings

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In the film “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)” there are many different beliefs, symbols and ritual that has different meaning to different characters. There are many rituals that takes places in this film that can be categories into van Gennep's rite of passage theory. Van’s theory groups religious rituals into tree different group stage called “separation, liminality, and incorporation” (Nye 2008). Furthermore. The separation stage can be when the person that’s undergoing the ritual separates from his usual life, for example, when Frodo was given the duty of moving the ring from Shire (his home town) to Rivendell (home of Elrond). This falls under the separation category because he is leaving his own town for the first

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