they're taking the hobbits to Isengard?

That's great, Jodie, but how exactly is it a question?

I respectfully disagree with Kasey H. Lord of the Rings is actually based on traditional Celtic and Anglo-Saxon accounts of the world and as much as possible reflects a worldview which he felt was more humane than the industrial/capitalist/Thatcherite view which he saw taking over England in the Twentieth Century.

There are precedents for taking the Hobbits to Isengard in the Old Books, which Tolkien was an Authority on, and Lin Carter's Tolkien a Look Behind the Lord of the Rings is worth reading even if it is somewhat superficial because he's so reductive about the books. The world was not really a better place before industrialization -- I'm always hearing some story or other about it and a tale of the kindness of Samuel Slater, who built the first Industrial Mill in America, founding a Sunday School -- because the kids had to work the rest of the week so as well as learning their faith they were learning to read -- drove that home for me recently. These were poor people. Without the kids getting jobs they would STARVE. That was early industrialization. As a boy or young teenager Merlin was taken by Vortigern's men to be sacrificed according to the instructions of his druids so that the castle Vortigern was building would stop falling down. Read Mary Stewart or Howard Pyle to find out how he was saved. Of course they were taking the Hobbits to Isengard. Sarumen wanted to see them. He didn't get to but that sort of thing happened all the time.

So What? Lord of the rings is not based on Myth or legend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VznlDlNPw4Q

Why would they do such a thing?

They are ?

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