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  • The Fellowship is TOTALLY different in the book...

    The Fellowship is TOTALLY different in the book...
    Aug 8 2025
    In The Lord of the Rings film adaptation, the fellowship is very unbalanced. It’s essentially Aragorn doing all the work, and Sam is the real hero, but I have to say, as I am reading through Lord of the Rings for the first time, I am astounded at the beauty of the fellowship and how they rely on each other. It is VASTLY different from the book compared to the movie, and I want to talk about two examples where that is the case.
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    13 min
  • We need to talk about Saruman

    We need to talk about Saruman
    Aug 7 2025
    We need to have a long talk about Saruman. That’s it. That’s the whole intro. Because I don’t even know where to go with this because he is so vastly different in the book and the details that you get for what he is wearing and what his mentality is in the tale that Gandalf told of his imprisonment at Orthanc is so strange. I just flat out don’t know what to think of him. So I want to write an essay to figure it out…this one might be all over the place. I feel like the last few have been all over the place, but this one especially is going to be.
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    17 min
  • Elrond is Lying in the Movies

    Elrond is Lying in the Movies
    Aug 6 2025
    In the Fellowship of the Ring, when Elrond says, “you’ve been summoned here to answer…” He’s lying. And it’s actually the coolest part of the whole Council of Elrond section in the book.
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    11 min
  • Revisiting the Lonliness of Bilbo Baggins

    Revisiting the Lonliness of Bilbo Baggins
    Aug 6 2025
    I want to revisit the very first essay I published on the very first chapter of Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring. In that essay I talked about the Loneliness of Bilbo Baggins and how I thought there were a lot of underwritten things as well as overt things that showed that Bilbo didn’t really seem to have too many good friends. And that he only realized a little too late how dear a friend Frodo was. And the same with Frodo…he only realized how much he loved Bilbo after Bilbo had left for another adventure.
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    11 min
  • Why Boromir is my Favorite Member of the Fellowship

    Why Boromir is my Favorite Member of the Fellowship
    Aug 6 2025
    There are no shortage of essays discussing the legend of Boromir in the books and the movies. He seems to be having some kind of resurgence in the last few years because enough time has passed from the films, which is what most people know LOTR from, that people are re-evaluating and looking at Boromir as a sympathetic character. But boy do they not know the start of it!
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    16 min
  • The Two Towers: Bk 4 - Ch 1-3

    The Two Towers: Bk 4 - Ch 1-3
    Jul 15 2025
    Jon, Jenn, Danny, and Lizzy talk about how even though there isn't a lot that happens in the first three chapters, there is just so much character development. And they talk about what the Two Towers really are?
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    1 h et 43 min
  • Sauron Wanted to Unite with the Dwarves...

    Sauron Wanted to Unite with the Dwarves...
    Jul 14 2025
    This blew my mind.
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    7 min
  • The most beautiful line that JRR Tolkien ever wrote

    The most beautiful line that JRR Tolkien ever wrote
    Jul 13 2025
    My grandmother died when I was 9. She was the kindest, most gentle and amazing woman I have ever known. When she laughed she had a kind of hiss to her laugh, not really a menacing one like a snake or anything, almost like a little rattle. This chapter of LOTR reminded me of her.
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    12 min