SOURCE: Potts, Stephen. “The Many Faces of the Hero in The Lord of the Rings.” Mythlore 17, no. 4 (summer 1991): 4-11.
In the following essay, Potts delineates the various “hero cycles” and applies them to The Lord of the Rings.
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