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The chapter changes the book's tone from the first chapter's light-hearted hobbit partying, and introduces major themes of the book. These include a sense of the depth of time behind unfolding events , the power of the Ring , and the inter-related questions of providence, free will, and predestination .
"The Council of Elrond" is the second chapter of Book 2 of J. R. R. Tolkien's bestselling fantasy work, The Lord of the Rings, which was published in 1954–1955.It is the longest chapter in that book at some 15,000 words, and critical for explaining the power and threat of the One Ring, for introducing the final members of the Company of the Ring, and for defining the planned quest to destroy it.
The three of them continue following the Wargals and discover that a bridge is being built across the impassable Fissure in order for their war party to cross. They also discover that the battle plans obtained earlier were fake, and Morgarath's real plan is to trap the King's army on the Plains of Uthal. Will burns the bridge with Evanlyn's help.
The chapter changes the book's tone from the first chapter's light-hearted Hobbit partying, and introduces major themes of the book. These include a sense of the depth of time behind unfolding events , [ 30 ] the power of the Ring , [ 31 ] and the inter-related questions of providence, free will, and predestination .
The chapter follows all the main action of The Lord of the Rings. The story tells how the One Ring, a ring of power made by the Dark Lord Sauron, lost for many centuries, has reappeared and is in the hands of a hobbit, Frodo Baggins, in the England-like [1] Shire. If Sauron finds the Ring, he will use it to take over the whole of Middle-earth.
The latest version of the tale is told in prose form in one chapter of The Silmarillion and is recounted by Aragorn in The Fellowship of the Ring. Some early versions of the story, published in the standalone book in 2017, described Beren as a Noldorin Elf as opposed to a Man. [ T 2 ]
[T 1] The Lonely Mountain is the destination of the protagonists, including the titular Hobbit Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, and is the scene of the novel's climax. The mountain has been described as the goal of Bilbo's psychological quest in The Hobbit ; scholars have noted that it and The Lord of the Rings are both structured as quests to a ...
Michael Drout's analysis of The Return of the King 's Shakespearean allusions [1] War comes to Gondor King Lear Drout's comments The hobbit Merry and the noblewoman Éowyn fight the Lord of the Nazgûl. The Nazgûl says "Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey". The mad Lear says "Come not between the dragon and his wrath".