I just barely squeaked in under the wire with this one. I finished The Two Towers at 11:30 on the night of the 31st. IT WAS EXCITING. When, you know, when the gates closed? And Sam? And Frodo? You know what I’m talking about? Well, anyway. Teresa is done hosting The Two Towers and Maree is taking over. So here we go. The last half of The Two Towers covers fewer characters than the first half. For some, this makes Book 4 slower than the rest of the book; others love the intense focus on Frodo, Gollum, and Sam. Where…
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Fellowship, Finished
Published 8 Mar 2010
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Gin Jenny
I am so late writing this post! But the Lord of the Rings Readalong is continuing, and I am combining the end-of-Fellowship questions from Clare and the start-of-Towers questions from Teresa all in one post. I can do that. Since we’re dealing with the first third of a novel, instead of the first novel in a series, do you find anything different? The pacing would be sort of whack if this were the first novel in the series. Book 1 of Fellowship spends all this time being hobbits and getting the hobbits out of the Shire, and then in Book…
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