LotR -- Book 3 - Chapter 08 - The Road to Isengard - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Neithan · 01-31-2005, 09:03 PM

Wow, you all are a hard act to follow! Some truly excellent posts here. Just one point I want to make about the different feel of this chapter. Tolkien is a master of building tension, often he let's it slowly build up and then releases it temporarily only to bring it back bigger than before. That is partly what this chapter does though at a greater scale. It is a break in the tension of the overall story, which is taken up again when the focus is brought back to Sauron.

01-31-2005, 09:03 PM	#7
Neithan Wight Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Michigan Posts: 126	Wow, you all are a hard act to follow! Some truly excellent posts here. Just one point I want to make about the different feel of this chapter. Tolkien is a master of building tension, often he let's it slowly build up and then releases it temporarily only to bring it back bigger than before. That is partly what this chapter does though at a greater scale. It is a break in the tension of the overall story, which is taken up again when the focus is brought back to Sauron. __________________ If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.~Henry David Thoreau