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[...]he became absorbed by Homer early in his life: "I was brought up in the Classics, and first discovered the sensation of literary pleasure in Homer" (Letters 172). Having escaped from the ogre's dwelling, the hero sometimes mocks the ogre, and often the monster throws him a magic ring, but when the hero puts it on, the ring repeatedly yells 'Here I am/ thereby guiding the blinded ogre to him. Since the ring cannot be removed, the man is obliged to cut off his finger, after which he escapes, taking with him the ogre's valuables. [...]as Frodo and Sam near his land, they come upon a defiled monument to an ancient king of Gondor, whose head has been replaced by "a round rough-hewn stone, rudely painted by savage hands in the likeness of a grinning face with one large red eye in the midst of its forehead" (702). According to Ortutay, "a peculiar attraction between related or similar types and structures [...] leads through a series of variants to the birth of new types and forms.