Post by Aredhel on Apr 21, 2004 2:01:07 GMT -6
In FotR, we see the breaking of the fellowship. This leads to several different storylines in TTT:
1. Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli
2. Merry, Pippin
3. Frodo, Sam
(All 3 of these groups eventually grow/include more characters as the story goes on-- Gandalf, Gollum, Ents, etc. At some points the groups even meet, mix, and/or seperate again.)
In the beginning of TTT, we go from #1 to #2 where we stay for a couple chapters, then quickly come back to storyline #1. This goes on for some time, and we don't even reach storyline #3 until some 230 pages later.
The storylines will almost never match, and the books (book 3 &4 in TTT) end at completely different points. For example:
*Book 3 (the first half of TTT) ends on March the 5th, and Gandalf and Pippin are riding to Gondor.
*Book 4 (second half of TTT) ends on March the 13th, the date Frodo is stung by Shelob.
By the time we get to March 13th in the opposite storyline, (in RotK) Pippin has been in Gondor for a while already.
This would mean that the reader has as little of an idea of what is going on with the other characters/storylines as the characters have, or as much. A first time reader, at least.
This makes the story full of suspense and suprises, and gives it a feeling of reality.
Some cross threads in the story-
*Boromir's horn, found by Faramir, so he knows about this when he is talking to Frodo.
*Faramir telling Denethor about coming across the other hobbits.
And, much later in RotK:
*We see Frodo's mithril coat brought foward by the mouth of sauron, and have no idea how it got there, yet.
*Also when Aragorn looks into the Palantír, and reveals himself as the heir of Isildur to Sauron. (No one knows he does this until much later.)
What do you think of all the different interlaced storylines? If you read the books before the movies, did you like the suspense that it caused? Or, would you have done it differently? Did any of the cross threads or many storylines confuse you?
1. Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli
2. Merry, Pippin
3. Frodo, Sam
(All 3 of these groups eventually grow/include more characters as the story goes on-- Gandalf, Gollum, Ents, etc. At some points the groups even meet, mix, and/or seperate again.)
In the beginning of TTT, we go from #1 to #2 where we stay for a couple chapters, then quickly come back to storyline #1. This goes on for some time, and we don't even reach storyline #3 until some 230 pages later.
The storylines will almost never match, and the books (book 3 &4 in TTT) end at completely different points. For example:
*Book 3 (the first half of TTT) ends on March the 5th, and Gandalf and Pippin are riding to Gondor.
*Book 4 (second half of TTT) ends on March the 13th, the date Frodo is stung by Shelob.
By the time we get to March 13th in the opposite storyline, (in RotK) Pippin has been in Gondor for a while already.
This would mean that the reader has as little of an idea of what is going on with the other characters/storylines as the characters have, or as much. A first time reader, at least.
This makes the story full of suspense and suprises, and gives it a feeling of reality.
Some cross threads in the story-
*Boromir's horn, found by Faramir, so he knows about this when he is talking to Frodo.
*Faramir telling Denethor about coming across the other hobbits.
And, much later in RotK:
*We see Frodo's mithril coat brought foward by the mouth of sauron, and have no idea how it got there, yet.
*Also when Aragorn looks into the Palantír, and reveals himself as the heir of Isildur to Sauron. (No one knows he does this until much later.)
What do you think of all the different interlaced storylines? If you read the books before the movies, did you like the suspense that it caused? Or, would you have done it differently? Did any of the cross threads or many storylines confuse you?
