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Eng 270 Chris Barkley Lord of the Ring BOOK 3 from beginning of The Two Towers

Explore the plot elements, new characters, important objects, settings, motifs, and themes in the third book of The Lord of the Rings series. Witness the united efforts against evil, but beware of looming doom and annihilation.

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Eng 270 Chris Barkley Lord of the Ring BOOK 3 from beginning of The Two Towers

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  1. Eng 270 Chris BarkleyLord of the Ring BOOK 3from beginning ofThe Two Towers Again I will analyze plot elements, new char, important objects, settings, motifs & themes Book of hope, reengagement, broadening involvement of free peoples united against evil But also doom, potential annahilation

  2. The Two Towers – Book 3Plot Summary • Death of Boromir sense of redemption • Ents most creative innovation of T’s • Reawakening, many paths and errands meet • Return of Gandalf rebirth, resurrection • Disappearance/unexpected return • Suspense, similar to Saruman, like M’s pony • Rohan / Helm’s Deep • Reawakening of Theoden • Fall of Saruman Opening death, end defeat • Not depressing

  3. INTERLACEMENTThe Two Towers – Book 3Plot Structure • Chap 1-2 AMON HEN TO FANGORN/orcs dead • Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Eomer • Chap 3-4 Amon Hen to Fangorn to Treebeard • Merry, Pippin, orcs, TREEBEARD • Chap 5-7 HELM’S DEEP G dis- re-appeares • Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Eomer, Gandalf, Theoden • Chap 8-11 Confront Saruman / REUNION FOTR • Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Gandalf, Theoden, Merry, Pippin • Story of fall of Isengard told by M&P to companions

  4. The Two Towers – Book 3New Characters Treebeard mortality/immortality debate Ents 4-D Many paths, Quickbeam larger coalition, different tasks (skills) Theoden 1st human ruler, older/tired, Eomer, Eowyn Developed before Arwen Saruman contrast to Gandalf Wormtongue name symbolic—obvious T does same with other names Hobbytla= hole-dweller Part of choice theme

  5. The Two Towers – Book 3NOT Monsters and other Creatures • Ents live in 4-D, not hasty, speed up time • No entwives so declining world/sadness • Sense of doom, potential defeat • Heroically face danger, responsibility • Huorns Ent-like trees (ents tree-like) • Orcs Urukhai, Saruman’s man/orcs • Can travel during day

  6. The Two Towers – Book 3Important Objects • Broach dropped by Pippin • Preview/prediction of Frodo able to destroy Ring • Palantir • Power that can be controlled, not made by Sauron, part of Aragorn’s inheritance

  7. The Two Towers – Book 3Four-dimensional world of Ents • Ents see world in terms of its history, make us aware of importance of past events to present • Quote re/ hill name of hill all times he was there • Ents slow like growth of trees • Quote re/ hasty • Ents are dying race, no Entwives in flux, changing • Ents are like MacBeth’s Birnam wood moving as real it were real

  8. The Two Towers – Book 3Settings Spring – SYMBOLISM rebirth REAWAKENING • Boromir redeemed in death • Rousing of the Ents • Theoden comes forth to war • Gandalf comes back Places which become involved again • Fangorn • Rohan

  9. Rohan OLD/MIDDLE ENGLISH WORLD Horseback riders Honor heroic actions and/or death Fangorn NEW CULTURE Last March of the Ents Slow to anger then deadly The Two Towers – Book 3New Worlds

  10. The Two Towers – Book 3Parallels • Saruman held Gandalf prisoner, now Gandalf holds Saruman prisoner • ORTHANC • S leader White Council, G now White Wizard • Paper comparing G and Saruman, changing roles, G wanders, S stays put, G trusts, S comes forward to Fangorn because no trust

  11. The Two Towers – Book 3Motifs • Songs in Rohan • Elegies FOR FALLEN or Heroic poems • SING WHILE THEY FIGHT • Songs of Memory NAMES OF FALLEN • ORAL CULTURE • Glory as antidote to death THEODEN • EOWYN’S DEATH WISH

  12. The Two Towers – Book 3Themes • Coming back to life, Legends HOBBITS TO • Gandalf, Theoden, Ents ROHAN • Heroic ideal, going down fighting • Theoden, Last march of the Ents • Power of Laughter • Courtesy/discourtesy, hospitality • Wormtongue discourteous, Saruman falsely courteous • Ents hospitable • Choices – ARAGORN’S FIRST • Boromir, Theoden, Saruman, Wormtongue

  13. ENTStwo poems • A-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lind-or-burume • That is part of my name for it . . . You know the thing we are on, where I stand and look out on fine mornings, and think about the Sun. Names grows with new experiences on it. 4-D • Hill? It is a hasty word for a thing which has stood here ever since this part of the world was shaped.

  14. LORD OF THE RINGS – Book 4second half of TWO TOWERS • JOIN US NEXT TIME TO DISCUSS THE QUEST OF FRODO AND SAM AS GOLLUM JOINS THEM AND LEADS THEM TOWARD MORDOR AND MOUNT DOOM

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