Okay, I'm going to make this short and sweet, since I realize that I've lost momentum and the only way to get back on track here is to keep moving (and because I have to start work in a half hour).
So yes, the hobbits are incredibly brave and amazing. Loved Frodo taking the lead but also the line "and he felled his orc" regarding Sam. One orc doesn't seem like much in most fantasy setting climates, since they're always the evil horde who's there to get mowed down by heroes, but imagine being your actual real-world self and facing one of those monsters. Hobbits might be tough but they're closer in strength to our real-world selves than anyone else in the Fellowship.
Aragorn rushing away with what he thought was Frodo's body is another one of those scenes that really stuck with me over the years, mostly because of how he says "I thought you were dead!", which probably means that everyone else thought he was dead, too. It's so Aragorn to hold back his emotion while carrying a dead friend, who he'd sworn to protect, whose fate matters to the entire world, and then his shocked reaction is one of those high contrast moments that adds dimension to a character. Thank Iluvatar for mithril, huh?
Yeah Moria is an awesome epic setting. I can't remember if it was this chapter or the last one when it's mentioned that Pippin was terrified about making one of the jumps and it took a long time to coax him into it, but if you give it the visuals from the movie, really can't blame Pippin for a thing. Balrog is a heck of a monster for visuals, too, and the faithfulness of Gandalf's '"death" scene was really well done.
It's quite a short chapter, as it should be. Losing a character like Gandalf has to sink in. Looking forward to how everyone is portrayed dealing with it in the next chapter.
So yes, the hobbits are incredibly brave and amazing. Loved Frodo taking the lead but also the line "and he felled his orc" regarding Sam. One orc doesn't seem like much in most fantasy setting climates, since they're always the evil horde who's there to get mowed down by heroes, but imagine being your actual real-world self and facing one of those monsters. Hobbits might be tough but they're closer in strength to our real-world selves than anyone else in the Fellowship.
Aragorn rushing away with what he thought was Frodo's body is another one of those scenes that really stuck with me over the years, mostly because of how he says "I thought you were dead!", which probably means that everyone else thought he was dead, too. It's so Aragorn to hold back his emotion while carrying a dead friend, who he'd sworn to protect, whose fate matters to the entire world, and then his shocked reaction is one of those high contrast moments that adds dimension to a character. Thank Iluvatar for mithril, huh?
Yeah Moria is an awesome epic setting. I can't remember if it was this chapter or the last one when it's mentioned that Pippin was terrified about making one of the jumps and it took a long time to coax him into it, but if you give it the visuals from the movie, really can't blame Pippin for a thing. Balrog is a heck of a monster for visuals, too, and the faithfulness of Gandalf's '"death" scene was really well done.
It's quite a short chapter, as it should be. Losing a character like Gandalf has to sink in. Looking forward to how everyone is portrayed dealing with it in the next chapter.
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