The Return of the King- Trust, what and who to believe in.

In my book The Return of the King by J.R.R Tolkein war is probably the largest issue being that the trio of Lord of the Rings is a fight between Orcs and humans. But if you look deeper into the book you will find that this war has started because of betrayal.Tolkein shows us this by making Saruman betray his apprentice Gandalf and helps Sauron create a army of Orcs to aid him in getting the ring and wiping out the human  race.

Betrayal is a huge issue in this world, whether it be between  friends, relationships, or allies of war. Betrayal isn't good for yourself or the other person(s). Many issues of trust have come up not only in this book but in the other 2 also. Several times has someone gone mad for the ring, and turned on all of his friends and allies. Just one of the many situations is when Boromir tried to kill Frodo so that he could control the ring and it's magical but evil power.

Another issue is trust. Trust sort of corresponds with Betrayal because when somebody betrays you it completely ruins the trust between you and that person. but in other cases there was no betrayal but the thing was evil all along. Take Smeagol for example. He was alternating his emotions to make him both good and bad, but eventually his bad side took over and bit Frodo's ring finger off making Smeagol and the ring fall into mount doom. But anyway Frodo trusted Smeagol to lead him and Sam to mount doom where they could dispose of the ring but at the right moment Smeagol leaped up at his chance and turned on Frodo for the ring.
 Sam never trusted Smeagol but Frodo was too blind to see that all Smeagl wanted was the ring. Frodo therefore Trusted Smeagol to guide them more than Sam to believe. This shows that everyone , not only Frodo should be careful who's life they put their hands in.

Tolkein was a genius to be able to put these issues in the book along side war without messing up the entire book.