[HCIsland]

I love the visuals of Isengard. I remember seeing an advanced trailer quite a while before the Fellowship was released and there was that shot of Gandalf riding towards Isengard and there was Orthanc against the backdrop of mountains. It froze me in my seat and I still have it as the desktop of my computer.<P>The book is almost entirely written from the view point of the hobbits, except for some requisite chapters that are from Aragorn's view point, but that amounted to no more then five or six chapters of the whole book. This made sense as the idea was that it is a translation of the Red Book, written by Bilbo, Frodo and Sam. As a result we didn't learn about what was going on in other places until characters showed up from those places and told us what was up.<P>I liked seeing all the scenes from Isengard. The work in the pits. Saruman addressing his armies. That was all great stuff. I think the theme of industrialization, machine over nature, came across very well.<P>I think I have Orthanc envy. <P>Man, what would Freud say? <P>H.C.<p>[ January 14, 2003: Message edited by: HCIsland ]