LOTR-THE TWO TOWERS BY: J.R.R TOLKIEN

Author: J.R.R Tolkien
# of pages: 220/352

Hello everyone! I started a new book for our book project. It is: "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers". As you might remember, last year I did "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring". So, I am going through the series. So far, I am very pleased with the book, it is very interesting and intense, and I did notice it was different than the movie so far. Today, I will be talking about the Protagonists and the Antagonists. That leads me to my first point in today's blog post:

Protagonists: Their are many protagonists in this book. First of all, I will start on a large scale. In middle-earth (The fictional place of Tolkien's works), their is a group of beings called the "Free peoples". These are the races that were the constant enemy of Sauron and Melkor (The evil lords throughout the ages) and waged wars on them and his allies. They are known as "the good ones", and their are four races that come under The Free peoples: Men, Elves, Dwarves, Eagles and Ents. "The Lord of Rings" mainly focuses on Men and Elves, though the Dwarves did have their part in The war of the Ring (the books conflict). Then, you have specific groups of these races. For example, their are men in Gondor (the biggest protagonist kingdom in the book) and in Rohan, and they both wage war on Sauron. Going to specific individuals, in this book their are eight main characters so far, that have significant roles: Aragorn (Man), Legolas (Elf), Gimli (Dwarve), Gandalf (Istari; a wizard), Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, Frodo Baggins, and Samwise Gamgee( all Hobbits; like men but drastically smaller.

Antagonists: As well as their being many protagonists in the book, their are also many antagonists. As I mentioned, their is "The evil" side, ruled by the dark lord Sauron. His minions consist of Orcs (Ugly and twisted forms of life), Corrupted men (From regions such as Rhun, or Harad) and it also consists of other creatures of evil, such as wargs (huge and bloodthirsty wolfs) and bats. These peoples terrorize the Free peoples of Middle-earth, and their goal is dominate all life. Like The Free Peoples, the orcs and men come from different regions. For example, their is a small faction of Orcs from Gundabad (who  were mostly slaughtered by the Dwarves), and the largest Middle-Earth faction of Orcs from Mordor. Though their are no main antagonists who are main characters in the book, their are some notable ones: The nine Nazgul (Also known as the Ringwraiths; they were once noble kings of men, who have been corrupted by Sauron who made them his most powerful minons), Sauron (The dark lord who is the master of all evil in Middle-Earth), Saruman (A once wise and powerful Istari; who was corrupted by Sauron) and various generals of the Orcs who have relatively small parts in the book, but yet they still pose a large threat to the Free peoples of Middle-Earth because the Orcs are their foes.

Here , I will include images of specific peoples in Middle-Earth, so that you can gain a clear image of how they look like:

(Above: Here you can see some troops from Gondor. As you can see, the people of Gondor are the same as real life humans, except they obviously live in  a fictional world)

(Above: Here you can see some Mordor orcs. They do have a human-like form, but they are ugly twisted beings, who only enjoy the suffering of others)

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