I have read the entire Lord of the Rings dozens of times, yet when you read it here I uncover new things each time. I don't know how you do it, but I appreciate it. Great video, as usual!
Aragorn may have been aware that the secret of where the Ring was would have been seriously placed in jeopardy were Merry and Pippin captured by Sauruman. Better to die making sure the secret didn't get out, thereby maintaining the secrecy of Frodo's mission.
Im wondering if the phrase ‘tree to tree’ means something else. Maybe something to do with Will O Wisps. They’re more associated with bogs and such and better associated with the Dead Marshes scene, but not unheard of in woodlands too.
You never remarked on what is one of my favorite quotes from LOTR: 'Hill. Yes, that was it. But it is a hasty word for a thing that has stood here ever since this part of the world was shaped....' I'm not sure why, but it is perhaps my favorite line in all the books. It calls to mind how long the world has existed, and how short a time we live in it and are able to appreciate it. And of how dismissive we are of such things. Earlier, Treebeard appreciates the "hill," but we don't. We dismiss it with such a short word: hill. Treebeard uses almost a paragraph to describe the hill. "you know, the thing we are on, where I stand and look out on fine mornings, and think about the sun, and the grass beyond the wood, and the horses, and the clouds, and the unfolding of the world...." etc. (Notice that he thinks of the horses, which undoubtedly are the horses of Rohan, which are generally far from Fangorn.) But all this actually belongs in the previous chapter, not here.
I have read the entire Lord of the Rings dozens of times, yet when you read it here I uncover new things each time. I don't know how you do it, but I appreciate it. Great video, as usual!
Thank you!! Eye-opening! I'd always enjoyed the weapon-word "argument" but never tied their uses together as you did.
Another thing I never noticed was that word "argument." Thank you for that!
Aragorn may have been aware that the secret of where the Ring was would have been seriously placed in jeopardy were Merry and Pippin captured by Sauruman. Better to die making sure the secret didn't get out, thereby maintaining the secrecy of Frodo's mission.
Eru would not have to protect Gandalf from Legolas's arrow. Gandalf said that none of them have any weapons that could hurt him.
Im wondering if the phrase ‘tree to tree’ means something else. Maybe something to do with Will O Wisps. They’re more associated with bogs and such and better associated with the Dead Marshes scene, but not unheard of in woodlands too.
You never remarked on what is one of my favorite quotes from LOTR: 'Hill. Yes, that was it. But it is a hasty word for a thing that has stood here ever since this part of the world was shaped....'
I'm not sure why, but it is perhaps my favorite line in all the books. It calls to mind how long the world has existed, and how short a time we live in it and are able to appreciate it. And of how dismissive we are of such things.
Earlier, Treebeard appreciates the "hill," but we don't. We dismiss it with such a short word: hill. Treebeard uses almost a paragraph to describe the hill. "you know, the thing we are on, where I stand and look out on fine mornings, and think about the sun, and the grass beyond the wood, and the horses, and the clouds, and the unfolding of the world...." etc. (Notice that he thinks of the horses, which undoubtedly are the horses of Rohan, which are generally far from Fangorn.)
But all this actually belongs in the previous chapter, not here.
I do like how he talks about the hill. I just honestly didn't have a lot to say about it other than "I like this" lol
Or was it?