Símbolos católicos em cenas de hospitalidade em O senhor dos anéis de J.R.R. Tolkien: o sacerdócio de Frodo, a majestade de Aragorn e Gandalf profeta

Abstract

The goal of this project is to investigate how hospitality scenes in literary works serve as symbolic vectors that communicate something to the reader beyond the narrative and how they confirm the Christian symbolic assumptions already established in Tolkienian studies. For this, we will look in the authorship institute on the Literary Studies field, as well as it’s relation with J.R.R. Tolkien’s theories - notably the one about subcreation. Next, we will define hospitality as a concept, establishing the analytics paradigm of the typical hospitality scenes and we will propose a new interpretation of Christian redemption history through the hospitality symbolism. Then, in the last chapter, we are going to analyses chosen scenes from The Lord of The Rings, searching for clues and elements that position the three main characters - Aragorn, Gandalf and Frodo - as the biblical offices of king, prophet and priest - respectively. Beginning with the bibliographic review method we are going to establish a firm foundation inside the modern debate around authorship, symbolism and hospitality, and then we are going to do a qualitative, structuralist and interpretative analysis of the hospitality’s rituals found in the chosen scenes as analytical parameters. In the end we will conclude that those hospitality scenes work as moments of interaction between hosts and guests to strengthen and highlight their places of the cristian archetypes embodied by those three main characters.