Post by MajahTR on Jan 18, 2009 21:37:14 GMT -6
In the early part of this chapter we learn beyond a shadow of doubt that the Riders WILL kill the Hobbits if they are caught. This makes the scene on Weathertop that much more terrifying.
Twice in the first couple of pages we read of a rooster crowing at sunrise as a horn blew. Tolkien uses this combination again when Pippen hears the horns of Rohan on the last page of The Siege of Gondor chapter of RotK. The feelings are different however. There is fear associated with the first two incidences…and a great deal of hope attached to the last.
So, the squint-eyed Southroner stole a horse. Where did he go? He was back in time to be at Bill Ferny's house when Strider and the Hobbits left. I believe that Unfinished Tales has some information about him being a spy for Saruman, and who was then caught by The Ringwraiths. He must have been spying for the Ringwraiths.
Ah, the pleasures of camping in the wilderness. The description of the Midgewater Marshes reminds me of a few camping trips into The Pine Barrens of New Jersey. We have Pine Flies that are the scourges of the earth and our Neekerbreekers are Whippoorwills. Here is a wave file…http://www.zooish.com/bird1.wav. Put your sound up to loud….and play it over and over while you try to sleep. If you can't get it to play, pay a little kid to yell "WhipPOorWIll" in your ear all night. You will get the gist of how the Hobbits must have felt with their NeekerBeekers. (By the way, Whippoorwills are small, reclusive birds, rarely seen, but heard for miles.)
When they are in sight of Weathertop, Sam recites a poem about Gil-galad. The last line is reminicent of the last line in The Ring Verse.
Strider tells the story of Beren and Luthien: The Tale of Tinuviel while they wait for the night to end. It's a beautiful poem. A much longer version of it can be found in the Lays of Beleriand, the third volume of the HoMe series. It is beautiful and haunting, all the more so since reading The Silmarillion.
The last three paragraphs of Chapter 11 speak volumes about the Power of the Ring…Frodo's growing lack of strength to resist and how the Ringwraiths "look".
DA
Twice in the first couple of pages we read of a rooster crowing at sunrise as a horn blew. Tolkien uses this combination again when Pippen hears the horns of Rohan on the last page of The Siege of Gondor chapter of RotK. The feelings are different however. There is fear associated with the first two incidences…and a great deal of hope attached to the last.
So, the squint-eyed Southroner stole a horse. Where did he go? He was back in time to be at Bill Ferny's house when Strider and the Hobbits left. I believe that Unfinished Tales has some information about him being a spy for Saruman, and who was then caught by The Ringwraiths. He must have been spying for the Ringwraiths.
Ah, the pleasures of camping in the wilderness. The description of the Midgewater Marshes reminds me of a few camping trips into The Pine Barrens of New Jersey. We have Pine Flies that are the scourges of the earth and our Neekerbreekers are Whippoorwills. Here is a wave file…http://www.zooish.com/bird1.wav. Put your sound up to loud….and play it over and over while you try to sleep. If you can't get it to play, pay a little kid to yell "WhipPOorWIll" in your ear all night. You will get the gist of how the Hobbits must have felt with their NeekerBeekers. (By the way, Whippoorwills are small, reclusive birds, rarely seen, but heard for miles.)
When they are in sight of Weathertop, Sam recites a poem about Gil-galad. The last line is reminicent of the last line in The Ring Verse.
Strider tells the story of Beren and Luthien: The Tale of Tinuviel while they wait for the night to end. It's a beautiful poem. A much longer version of it can be found in the Lays of Beleriand, the third volume of the HoMe series. It is beautiful and haunting, all the more so since reading The Silmarillion.
The last three paragraphs of Chapter 11 speak volumes about the Power of the Ring…Frodo's growing lack of strength to resist and how the Ringwraiths "look".
DA
