Author: J.R.R Tolkien
# of Pages: 245/352
Hello dear blog readers! I am as you know currently reading the second part of the well known "Lord of the Rings" series. I am planning to finish this book off during this following week, or during the up-coming holiday. So far, I am happy with the book, but know I have entered a period were it is a little bit boring, as Frodo (Protagonist), Sam (Frodo's friend), and Gollum (An ugly mutation) venture to the land of Mordor to cast the One Ring into the fires of mount doom. What I mean, is that the book is very descriptive at this point, and noting to exciting is happening, only that the three are constantly getting into arguments over their rations of food. In general, I will be covering two topics today, those being:
Setting. The setting of this book is Middle-Earth. Middle-Earth is the place were all of Tolkien's works happen, and it is a made up version that somewhat relates to our world. More specifically, the region in Mddle-Earth were Frodo and the gang currently are is a place called 'The Dead Marshes". These marshes were a sight of a great battle many thousands of years ago, between The Free peoples (Protagonists) and the Evil. What makes these dead marshes so scary and the reason why they are called "dead" is because many thousands of members of the two sides died here during the battle. The time of the setting is the year 3019 in the Third age of the sun. Tolkien has created his own sort of calender to mark events, and so the war of the ring, and the book is happening during the year 3019, of the third age. Previously, their were other age that passed having their own events, but this one happens to be in the third age. As well, Frodo and the crew are heading towards a place called the "Black Gate". It is a heavily guarded gate that was constructed to keep watch of what is going in and outside of the land of Mordor. It is said to be a huge and black gate, guarded by many evil orcs. In general, the current setting of the book is definitely an interesting, and scary one.
Conflict. The conflict of this story is plainly said, simple. The good powers, or the Free-peoples of Middle-Earth, are fighting against the Evil powers. But, this is were it gets complicated and somewhat confusing. There are many sub-conflicts between conflicts, some of them being small or large. The major one is destroying evil forever by casting the One ring into the fires of Mount Doom, were this evil ring was forged. Then, you have the wars between certain peoples within Middle-Earth such as: Gondor and Mordor, Isengard and Rohan, Dol Guldur and Mirkwood, and many more. As well, Frodo and his companions must deal with themselves, particularly Frodo. The Ring is slowly corrupting his mind, and he must bear the weight of such a horrific evil that would have the power to destroy anything in Middle-Earth. If we were to put the conflicts into certain categories, those would be: Society vs Society, Man vs Man, Man vs Society, and Man vs Nature (By society I mean groups of people such as the evil powers). In general, we can see that their are many conflicts within one major conflict in Middle-Earth. Look beneath for a picture of the huge Black gate of Mordor that guards those lands:
Thank you for reading my post, and next time I hope I will have something more interesting to share.As the action fills up in the story, and Frodo, Sam and Gollum are slowly reaching Mount Doom to throw the One Ring into the fires of the volcano, and destroy evil in the land of Middle-Earth forever! NL
# of Pages: 245/352
Hello dear blog readers! I am as you know currently reading the second part of the well known "Lord of the Rings" series. I am planning to finish this book off during this following week, or during the up-coming holiday. So far, I am happy with the book, but know I have entered a period were it is a little bit boring, as Frodo (Protagonist), Sam (Frodo's friend), and Gollum (An ugly mutation) venture to the land of Mordor to cast the One Ring into the fires of mount doom. What I mean, is that the book is very descriptive at this point, and noting to exciting is happening, only that the three are constantly getting into arguments over their rations of food. In general, I will be covering two topics today, those being:
Setting. The setting of this book is Middle-Earth. Middle-Earth is the place were all of Tolkien's works happen, and it is a made up version that somewhat relates to our world. More specifically, the region in Mddle-Earth were Frodo and the gang currently are is a place called 'The Dead Marshes". These marshes were a sight of a great battle many thousands of years ago, between The Free peoples (Protagonists) and the Evil. What makes these dead marshes so scary and the reason why they are called "dead" is because many thousands of members of the two sides died here during the battle. The time of the setting is the year 3019 in the Third age of the sun. Tolkien has created his own sort of calender to mark events, and so the war of the ring, and the book is happening during the year 3019, of the third age. Previously, their were other age that passed having their own events, but this one happens to be in the third age. As well, Frodo and the crew are heading towards a place called the "Black Gate". It is a heavily guarded gate that was constructed to keep watch of what is going in and outside of the land of Mordor. It is said to be a huge and black gate, guarded by many evil orcs. In general, the current setting of the book is definitely an interesting, and scary one.
Conflict. The conflict of this story is plainly said, simple. The good powers, or the Free-peoples of Middle-Earth, are fighting against the Evil powers. But, this is were it gets complicated and somewhat confusing. There are many sub-conflicts between conflicts, some of them being small or large. The major one is destroying evil forever by casting the One ring into the fires of Mount Doom, were this evil ring was forged. Then, you have the wars between certain peoples within Middle-Earth such as: Gondor and Mordor, Isengard and Rohan, Dol Guldur and Mirkwood, and many more. As well, Frodo and his companions must deal with themselves, particularly Frodo. The Ring is slowly corrupting his mind, and he must bear the weight of such a horrific evil that would have the power to destroy anything in Middle-Earth. If we were to put the conflicts into certain categories, those would be: Society vs Society, Man vs Man, Man vs Society, and Man vs Nature (By society I mean groups of people such as the evil powers). In general, we can see that their are many conflicts within one major conflict in Middle-Earth. Look beneath for a picture of the huge Black gate of Mordor that guards those lands:
Thank you for reading my post, and next time I hope I will have something more interesting to share.As the action fills up in the story, and Frodo, Sam and Gollum are slowly reaching Mount Doom to throw the One Ring into the fires of the volcano, and destroy evil in the land of Middle-Earth forever! NL
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