LotR -- Book 5 - Chapter 04 - The Siege of Gondor

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Originally Posted by Formendacil

But the very last line is the eucatastrophe of Book V: Rohan has come in the nick of time.

Heralded by a cock crowing, welcoming the dawn. Not just Rohan; the Sun has come at last after days of opressive Darkness and despair. (And of course, to Tolkien, a symbolic reference to the greatest eucatastrophe of them all) When the narrative returns to this point after a chronological retrograde in the next chapter, "For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and the darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled"

(PJ really, really effed things up by shooting all of the Siege aside from the breaking of the Gate in broad daylight)