In chapter five of book four in The Lord of the Rings Merry is still traveling with the Rider of Rohan Minas Tirith. Merry is hidden with them and feels bad for having to travel with them. He feels as if he is too much to handle for them. The Riders come up upon the Woses who are wild people that live in the woods. Because there are not many roads that lead to Minas Tirith the Woses or wild people help to show them how to get there, they just refuse to fight. In The Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn discusses the traits of free life. He talks about cruelty and explains, “And where among all the preceding qualities was there any place left for kindheartedness? How could one possibly preserve one’s kindness while pushing away the hands of those who were drowning? Once you have been steeped in blood, you can only become more cruel.” (Solzhenitsyn 326). The evil in The Lord of the Rings is very cruel. Throughout the beginning of book five in The Lord of The Rings, Gandalf explains how he wants to protect the good in the middle-earth and try to prevent evil. Gandalf understands that there is a permanent lie that the people of mordor are trying to get across. Characters in the novel are changing sides constantly. In The Gulag Archipelago it explains constant fear and the lie as a form of existence. The constant fear is certainly something used by the Russian regime. It was also used by the characters like Sauron and the ringwraiths. They bring fear to a significant number of hobbits and others. Despite individuals like Theoden who try to show strength. Solzhenitsyn explains the constant fear by saying, “Fear was not always the fear of arrest. There were intermediate threats: purges, inspections, the completion of security questionnaires–routine or extraordinary ones– dismissal from work, deprivation of residence permit, expulsion or exile,” (Solzhenitsyn 321). This is evident with different things in the Lord of the Rings. The good were not just scared of being killed, they were also scared of being turned into something bad. They were scared of not just Sauron, but also of the ringwraiths and Saruman the white. Solzhenitsyn finally explains, “Whether giving in to fear, or influenced by material self-interest or envy, people can’t nonetheless become stupid so swiftly.” (Solzhenitsyn 325). This also explains how Sauron wants to use fear to explain a sort of permanent lie.