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[T 3] Tolkien later described "The Shadow of the Past" as "the crucial chapter". [8] [1] The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey concurred, labelling it "the vital chapter", as it established the central plot of the book. In particular, it demonstrated that the Ring was immeasurably powerful and unalterably evil, so that its destruction was the only ...
A Hobbit point of view is shared in The Lord of the Rings by narrative, dialogue, embedded stories, and songs, for example in the first chapter. [T 2] Seq Narrative Dialogue Story Poem/song Place 1: Hobbit: The Shire: 2: Gaffer Gamgee: The Ivy Bush inn 3: Hobbits: 4: Gaffer Gamgee: 5: Hobbits: 6: Omniscient: The Shire 7: Gandalf/Bilbo: Bag End ...
[7] [10] In February 2022, Bayona revealed that the first episode is titled "A Shadow of the Past", which is an allusion to the second chapter of The Lord of the Rings, "The Shadow of the Past". McKay said the first season was influenced by dialogue from that chapter which he paraphrased as "After a defeat and a respite, a shadow grows again in ...
Chapter Eight, Chapter 8, or Chapter VIII may also refer to: Music. Chapter 8 (band), a Detroit soul group; Chapter 8 (Chapter 8 album), 1979; Chapter 8 (g.o.d album ...
"Where there's a whip there's a will": Orcs driving a Hobbit across the plains of Rohan. Scraperboard illustration by Alexander Korotich, 1995 . The author J. R. R. Tolkien uses many proverbs in The Lord of the Rings to create a feeling that the world of Middle-earth is both familiar and solid, and to give a sense of the different cultures of the Hobbits, Men, Elves, and Dwarves who populate it.
As documented in The Return of the Shadow, Tolkien had written a five-page draft, what he called the "first germ" of The Lord of the Rings, by 19 December 1937 when he claimed to his publisher "I have written the first chapter of a new story about Hobbits – 'A long expected party'." [8] He completed a fourth, much fuller, draft of the chapter ...
The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is an edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit with a commentary by Douglas A. Anderson.It was first published in 1988 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first American publication of The Hobbit, and by Unwin Hyman of London.
[4] [8] [9] Robert Plank adds that Tolkien could have chosen as a pattern any number of other returning heroes. [8] This theme, of a last obstacle to the heroic homecoming, was paradoxically both long-planned (certainly back to the time of writing of the Lothlorien chapter) and, in the person of Saruman-as-Sharkey, "a very late entry". [4]