![]() ![]() This novel takes 40-50% before they even get to Rivendell, where the quest is set out. In fact, I would argue the other two novels are considerably contracted in a lot of ways. The Fellowship of the Ring – So this novel of the three is by far the slowest, and I don’t actually think that’s a bad thing. The novels allow the reader, the Hobbits, and the world to slowly come out of the fog, bit by bit. Coming into the world and feeling like everything has led to this point, and all knowledge is already known and discovered. This is the feeling of being alive as I know it. And the result is a clear sense of coming late to the world. Gandalf and Aragorn spends years and years trying to understand. Knowledge plays such an important role, and what is somewhat lost in the film is the brooding slow meandering of figuring out the moment that has arisen. Because the Hobbits have been sheltered away from the dangers, but also the histories of the world, so have we. And this is where they are vastly superior to movies. What I mean by this is that the majority of the books are written from the Hobbits’ perspectives: nearly all of The Fellowship of the Ring, a little more than half each of The Two Towers and The Return of the King. And I that here too.Īnd while the books are more pensive and expansive and slow-burning than the movies (for example, some 15 years or so pass from start to end), the books still feel quite clouded. Here some things about my reading: I always skip the songs, which almost always feel oddly out of place. ![]() I also previously read them twice: in high school and then in college when the movies came out. I am also listening to the audiobooks this time, and the last time I read the books was in 2004. I am revisiting Lord of the Rings this Thanksgiving season, mostly while I do yardwork and household chores avoiding work and staving off boredom and frenetic energy. ![]()
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