The Tolkien Coming of Age Club

[Aratlithiel]

Welcome, Alatáriël.

My son found it very helpful to chart the journeys of the individuals in the trilogy - it helped him enormously in keeping track of who was doing what and where on any given day. He took a copy of the map, plotted the locations of the Fellowship and used the descriptions in the timeline to record their actions and whereabouts. He then drew lines connecting the dates on the various paths to illustrate what each individual was doing and how it was related to the other Fellowship members.

For instance, on March 2nd, he plotted Frodo @ the Marshes, Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli and Theoden @ Edoras and Merry & Pippin in Fangorn - then connected them all with lines to show what each of them were doing on that particular day. It was alot of work but the end product is (although a little messy) very interesting and sort of gives one a new perspective on the overall view.

Now, if I could only get him to put that much effort into his homework...sigh.

[ February 23, 2003: Message edited by: Aratlithiel ]