POLL: LotR, Tolkien and You - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Hanna_Gamgee · 05-06-2002, 10:17 AM

1. What is the theme of Lotr?
b. Good and Evil

2. Is there as secondry theme? If so what is it?
d. Power of the Small and Weak

3. Are there any contemporary references? If so please post your thoughts in the thread
No
Not sure what u are asking.

4. What type of work is lotr?
a. Nostalgic
The book is looking at what happened in the past.

5. How does lotr provide truths on the human condidtion?
e. Through pure fantasy
Not sure if I understand the question.

6. Which of the following moved you when you first read lotr?
(please check all that apply)
None of the above really but these are the closest.
b. Gollum's faliure (just) to repentwhen interupted by Sam
e. the general heart racking sense of the vanishing past(best expressed by Gandlaf's words about the Plantiri)

7. Which of the following would you choose to characterized lotr?
(please choose all that apply)
a. exciting
c. moving
e. of deeper relevence imbeded in the stroy

8. How old were you when you first read lotr?
I was a child the first time I read it. I did not finish the book because I didnt understand it. Now that im a adult I reread the book and I love it.

9. Do you feel you appriciation and understanding of of lotr increases with time?
Yes
definetly

05-06-2002, 10:17 AM	#1
Hanna_Gamgee Animated Skeleton Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The Shire section of Antarctica Posts: 37	1. What is the theme of Lotr? b. Good and Evil 2. Is there as secondry theme? If so what is it? d. Power of the Small and Weak 3. Are there any contemporary references? If so please post your thoughts in the thread No Not sure what u are asking. 4. What type of work is lotr? a. Nostalgic The book is looking at what happened in the past. 5. How does lotr provide truths on the human condidtion? e. Through pure fantasy Not sure if I understand the question. 6. Which of the following moved you when you first read lotr? (please check all that apply) None of the above really but these are the closest. b. Gollum's faliure (just) to repentwhen interupted by Sam e. the general heart racking sense of the vanishing past(best expressed by Gandlaf's words about the Plantiri) 7. Which of the following would you choose to characterized lotr? (please choose all that apply) a. exciting c. moving e. of deeper relevence imbeded in the stroy 8. How old were you when you first read lotr? I was a child the first time I read it. I did not finish the book because I didnt understand it. Now that im a adult I reread the book and I love it. 9. Do you feel you appriciation and understanding of of lotr increases with time? Yes definetly __________________ Aragorn: 'Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the world.