Writing in LOTR

KGamgee · 02-08-2002, 10:32 AM

What do you think is the most well written part of Lord of the Rings?

bropous · 02-08-2002, 12:03 PM

All of it.

coolismo · 02-08-2002, 12:29 PM

The choices of Master Samwise

athelas · 02-08-2002, 12:45 PM

I liked all of it but I loved of RotK best, especially the final parts of the journey to mount doom ( the orc tower of cirith ungol etc.)

Arathorn · 02-08-2002, 12:59 PM

I liked Many Partings all the way up to The Grey Havens. I'm a sucker for closure.

Then I can close the book, caress its cover, contemplate whether or not to have it bound in leather like two dueling voices in my head, and finally decide to put it back into the wooden chest in the basement (my room)...

aldesign · 02-08-2002, 04:31 PM

Battle at Helms Deep was amazing reading!!

and the Taming of Smeagol wasnt bad either

im am yet overly impressed by the first half of RotK

Aragorn · 02-08-2002, 04:31 PM

The first half of TTT.

FrodoFriend · 02-08-2002, 10:35 PM

The Choices of Master Samwise and The Field of Cormallen. Both emotional, poetic, moving . . .

"And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them, now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness."

Eloquence. Beautiful.

Laurelyn · 02-09-2002, 04:42 PM

I'm with Bropous on this one: All of it.

02-08-2002, 10:32 AM	#1
KGamgee Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 103	Writing in LOTR What do you think is the most well written part of Lord of the Rings?

02-08-2002, 12:03 PM	#2
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	All of it. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

02-08-2002, 12:29 PM	#3
coolismo Enting Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: south england Posts: 93	The choices of Master Samwise Last edited by coolismo : 02-08-2002 at 12:33 PM.

02-08-2002, 12:45 PM	#4
athelas Enting Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: The Twilight Meres Posts: 87	I liked all of it but I loved of RotK best, especially the final parts of the journey to mount doom ( the orc tower of cirith ungol etc.) __________________ Farewell sweet earth and nortern sky, for ever blest,since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lùthien Tinùviel more fair than mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled unmade into old abyss, yet were its making good, for this-- the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea-- that Lùthien for a time should be. "I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam."-Frodo FRODO LIVES!!! (erm...Sam does too, right?)

02-08-2002, 12:59 PM	#5
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	I liked Many Partings all the way up to The Grey Havens. I'm a sucker for closure. Then I can close the book, caress its cover, contemplate whether or not to have it bound in leather like two dueling voices in my head, and finally decide to put it back into the wooden chest in the basement (my room)... __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

02-08-2002, 04:31 PM	#6
aldesign Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Uk Posts: 447	Battle at Helms Deep was amazing reading!! and the Taming of Smeagol wasnt bad either im am yet overly impressed by the first half of RotK

02-08-2002, 04:31 PM	#7
Aragorn Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Anywhere but where I should be. Posts: 369	The first half of TTT. __________________ And they carried them to the flatlands But they died along the way And they built up with their bare hands What we still can't do today. EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMEDDCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO till the day I die.

02-08-2002, 10:35 PM	#8
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	The Choices of Master Samwise and The Field of Cormallen. Both emotional, poetic, moving . . . "And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them, now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness." Eloquence. Beautiful. __________________ Fingolfin lives! ... in my finger! The Crossroads of Arda - Warning. Halfwit content. Not appropriate for people with IQ of over 18. The Fellowship of the Message Board Nyáréonié - The Tale of Tears

02-09-2002, 04:42 PM	#9
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	I'm with Bropous on this one: All of it. __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

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