The Moral Values in J.R.R. Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring

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The purpose of this study is to elaborate the moral values of Frodo Baggins, a hobbits race, one of the inheritors of the ring in J.R.R. Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring. Frodo Baggins gets responsibility to keep the ring not go to the outside inheritors. Through exhausting journey, he manages to keep the ring on the right hand. Using a qualitative descriptive method and descriptive and dramatic method as well as close reading theory, the study finds that Frodo Baggins turns out to be a man of morally valued proved by the fact that he is unambitious person, simple person, optimistic person, polite person, careful person, generous person, humorous person, and friendly person. In spite of benefiting to other people within the novel, Frodo Baggins’ moral values are worthy of appreciation as he becomes the model of creating a balance life because without a balance life, the world will be in chaos.