![]() ![]() ![]() We needn't concern ourselves with Books V and VI right now, but they follow the same pattern: "everybody who isn't Frodo & Sam" followed by "just Frodo & Sam". ![]() Book IV follows Frodo and his faithful friend and servant Sam Gamgee as they wander through a very small patch of very dangerous wilderness, aided and threatened in equal measure by the ring's former owner, a monstrous thing called Gollum. Book III follows several members of the fellowship, west of the Great River, in two groups, and more or less describes the act of preparing for a great war. They are gathered into the volume The Fellowship of the Ring. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, if you haven't read it, is divided into six "books": Book I is the story of Frodo Baggins's journey into the greater world to destroy an evil ring, while Book II follows the fellowship that has gathered to protect him on the longest, though not most dangerous, leg of his quest. from this site's review of For a Few Dollars MoreI guess it's the time for that conversation now. But this is surely not the time for that conversation." In fact, Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings as a six-part narrative, bound for convenience in three volumes, and it was partially Jackson & Company's efforts to force it into a three-part structure that gave the films some of their narrative problems. "But Jackson was just following Tolkien's lead!" one might say. ![]()
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