fajrdrako | Tolkien thoughts....

I just succeeded in downloading the trailor of "The Return of the King". Oh so beautiful. And not just visually.... beautiful words, beautiful concepts, such a reality.

This evening I was reading "The Fellowship of the Ring" to Beulah and we were on the chapter "Lothlorien". I had forgotten that Gollum appears in that chapter - in Lothlorien itself - and that Haldir is puzzled by him, but notices his resemblance to a Hobbit. I always think that the entry of the Orcs into Lothlorien is one of the scariest bits of the whole story.

The really scariest bit, though, is the encounter between Aragorn and Sauron via the palantir. I look forward to that. And my other favourite detail - Aragorn getting Anduril.

That chapter reads like poetry. The further I read the more Tolkien is into his verbal stride. Beulah said to me, "He really liked words, didn't he?" Yes. I had to look up "whin" - it means "gorse" - and while I was at it, I looked up "whortleberry", which turns out to be the same as bilberry.