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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
This is a good point, but it's not completely true. There are several chapters in Book III that concern only Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and (eventually) Gandalf.
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True; but aren't those relayed mostly from Gimli's perspective?
Hah-- Gimli, le Faux Hobbeet. If he only knew.
Edit: Much of LOTR was written "to" Christopher, and mailed to him as he fought in WW2. (Africa, wasn't it?) Since Christopher was always one of Tolkien's oral audiences as a child-- how many bedtime stories WERE there?-- it strikes me as quite natural that oral storytelling techniques and characteristics would percolate through Tolkien's writing: especially as he writes to his son overseas.