The Two Towers

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All right I’ll tell you of the The Two Towers book. This is the second book in the trilogy. This is the book that really gets the action rolling. This book is divided into two parts, the first following the remnants of the Fellowship; Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, Merry, and Pippin in their adventures. And the second part following the two Hobbits who struck out on their own; Frodo, and Sam, in their adventures. In the first part, Merry and Pippin are captured by the very Orcs who had killed Boromir, and are carried away captive in the direction of Isengard, these Orcs' headquarters, the home base of Saruman, a corrupted Wizard. Fortuanatly on the way they are able to escape. Meanwhile, Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas chase after the Orcs that have carried the Hobbits away. Along the way they meet the Riders of Rohan, led by Eomer. The Hobbits meanwhile meet in the forest that they escape into an Ent named Fangorn who after learning their story, calls an Ent assembly, to crush Saruman, who has been treating them and their Forest cruelly. The three companions searching for the Hobbits in the forest find Gandalf, “reborn”, now Gandalf the White. Later after Gandalf led them to the King Theoden and exposes Wormtongue, the King's advisor, as a spy for Saruman. They head to Isengard and are surprised to find it nearly all destroyed, except for Orthanc the Tower, and Merry and Pippen sitting there waiting for them. Wormtongue is in the tower with Saruman. Wormtongue tries to kill Gandalf by throwing something at him, however he misses. What he threw was a “seeing stone” a Palantir, which is a very important thing, (READ THE BOOKS IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY!) Meanwhile Frodo and Sam meet Gollum, “tame” him and force him to lead them to Mordor. When they got there they see the impregnable gate into Mordor, and Gollum tells them of another way. Along the way they meet Faramir, Bother of Boromir. Gollum leads the Hobbits up a path into Mordor, where Shelob, the First Spider lives, she is HUGE! (A lot like Aragog in Harry Potter, only more..uh..badder? Let's just say that J.K. Rawlings got her idea from Shelob and dumbed,and watered it down into Aragog in order to not scare any young children.) She stings Frodo, Sam wounds her, and she flees. Sam thinks that Frodo is dead and so takes upon himself the burden of the Ring. Orcs find Frodo and carry him away to search for the Ring. Sam follows. A door gets slammed in his face, separating them, and Sam hears through it that Shelob likes her prey alive, which meant that Frodo was still alive. Sam feels horrible, and scared. I like this book a lot, and I think this book is only second to The Return of the King READ IT!!! PLEASE? Pretty please? You'll enjoy it.

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Some of you may be wondering when I was going to tell you all about the next book in my most charming manner. Well you can stop wondering now…because it will be very soon, just as soon as I finish this page. And so finish the book…JK, I already finished the book.

Frodo Baggins

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Well, I have told you all about The Fellowship of the Ring, and have told you about Frodo, the main, main character, well, I haven’t told about him really, only mentioned him upon occasion, which is why I am composing this blog post.  There are many opinions on this character, some are strong, others not, some are derogatory some are not. Many think that this guy is a “Wuss”, and others think he is a “Stud”. What do I think? Well… he is a Hobbit in possession of the most corrupting, powerful, and evil thing on Middle Earth, besides Sauron himself, (that last phrase is even a little debatable.) Let us consider, Boromir wasn’t even in possession of the Ring and fell under Its power, as did many others before him; Frodo only finally succumbed to the power of the Ring at the very end, at the very Cracks of Doom.  What do I think? He was a Stud. Nah…well… Frodo was from the Shire, and was a cousin of Bilbo’s, and eventually his heir, which is how he inherited the Ring. Frodo was a caring sort of Hobbit, quite unlike the Sackville-Bagginses. He also had a strong sense of loyalty to a cause. He realized that it was the Ring that had splintered the Fellowship and would continue to do so, and so left the Fellowship, so the rest would not be harmed; he also knew that the quest would only be accomplished if he went alone, and so he did. Frodo also loved poetry as his mentor, Bilbo, did. He is also a downright charming fellow.

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The Fellowship of the Ring

Ah, the Real beginning of the trilogy... The Fellowship of the Ring. This book stars Frodo … Bilbo's heir to nearly all that he has, including and most importantly his Ring. The book starts out with Bilbo's birthday party, in which Bilbo plans to use the Ring to disappear forever, but before escaping the Shire completely he sneaks into his house and hands off the Ring to Frodo. The action really starts when the Ringwraiths show up and start chasing Frodo, and his three hobbit friends as they leave the Shire at the bidding of Gandalf the Grey. Merry, Pippen and Sam, the three friends, and Frodo soon got lost in the Old Forest, but are rescued by Tom Bombadil. When they reach the town of Bree they meet Aragorn, AKA, Strider, and Dunedain. Here they are directed to Rivendell, an Elven-haven. Here the Fellowship is formed. And their mission is set forth, to destroy the Ring, in the Cracks of Doom. The Fellowship is made up of a Dwarf, Gimli; an Elf, Legolas; a wizard, Gandalf; a few Humans, Boromir, and Aragorn; and four Hobbits, Frodo, Merry, Pippen and Sam. Eventually the party, in their passage South are forced into the Mines of Moria, where the Fellowship meets a Balgrog, and Gandalf falls with it into a Chasm, leaving the Fellowship to be led by Aragorn. They then head to Lorien, an Elven-haven, where the group meets Galadriel and receive special gifts from her as they leave. As they journey they spot Gollum. (He is never far away.)Finally the group gets to a point of decision, to Mordor or to Minis Tirith, the Party is split. Boromir becomes overcome by the power of the Ring and seeks to take it from Frodo; Frodo eludes him and then later decides to not endanger the group with the Ring and resolves to take it himself, alone. He sneaks out of the camp and is followed by Sam who ends up going with him. (Guess who else follows them? Yep...Gollum.) I love this book, and if you have not read it...READ IT! 

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