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Lyta_Underhill · 04-28-2003, 09:10 AM

Great, concise post, Tigerlily! I went back and looked at my ponderous one preceding it and discovered that the things I'd noted happen right about where they are separated: Pippin is taken alone to Minas Tirith after the Palantir experience; Merry pledges himself to Theoden after he is taken back to the Meduseld and is bereft of Pippin; Sam has to choose between the quest and Frodo when Frodo is taken from him by the Orcs; and Frodo has his realization that he is alone in his quest and must take the Ring alone after much fear and deliberation, and a few well-shown examples of why no other member of the Fellowship, no elf (no matter how great) can bear the burden he must bear alone. (Of course, when Frodo is truly alone, bereft of Sam, there is only a fuzzy picture of what goes on in his world: an orc turns into Sam...Frodo seems to be in a dark dream. In fact, I get a feeling that, without companions to tie him to the real world, Frodo would lose his connection to it real fast. Perhaps this is why the tale in Mordor is told from Sam's point of view--because Frodo's involves mostly the unseen world at this point. At least that's my idea at the moment!)

Great insight, and thanks! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Cheers,
Lyta

04-28-2003, 09:10 AM	#1
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	Great, concise post, Tigerlily! I went back and looked at my ponderous one preceding it and discovered that the things I'd noted happen right about where they are separated: Pippin is taken alone to Minas Tirith after the Palantir experience; Merry pledges himself to Theoden after he is taken back to the Meduseld and is bereft of Pippin; Sam has to choose between the quest and Frodo when Frodo is taken from him by the Orcs; and Frodo has his realization that he is alone in his quest and must take the Ring alone after much fear and deliberation, and a few well-shown examples of why no other member of the Fellowship, no elf (no matter how great) can bear the burden he must bear alone. (Of course, when Frodo is truly alone, bereft of Sam, there is only a fuzzy picture of what goes on in his world: an orc turns into Sam...Frodo seems to be in a dark dream. In fact, I get a feeling that, without companions to tie him to the real world, Frodo would lose his connection to it real fast. Perhaps this is why the tale in Mordor is told from Sam's point of view--because Frodo's involves mostly the unseen world at this point. At least that's my idea at the moment!) Great insight, and thanks! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Cheers, Lyta __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”