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Elwen
Lorien
Oct 2 2013, 6:47pm
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Fear and Loathing in the Shire
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I used to be an every year LOTR reader, but when I realized it had become had become more tradition than treat, I stopped for a few years. Now I’ve picked it up again and I’m loving how fresh and new everything seems again. This will probably be the first of several posts as I stumble across things I hadn’t noticed, or had forgotten about, so bear with me.
The thing that has struck me in a way that is sharper than it ever has before was just how frightening the pursuit by the Nazgul through the Shire really is. I've always found the raid on Crickhollow "scary" and maybe it was just the breezy autumn darkness as I was reading on my back porch, but I never noticed just how strong the suspense is there, and that's not the only moment.
The incredibly close call as Frodo is leaving Bag End, the encounter on the road, the image of the Rider on the top of the dell the hobbits just left, the soft but shuddering blow on the door of the Crickhollow house; these are creepy on first read, but when you fully understand what it is that is pursuing the hobbits, it’s downright terrifying.
Which brings me to my question. Aragorn says of the Nazgul: “They will come on you in the wild, in some dark place where there is no help. Do you wish them to find you? They are terrible!” The hobbits looked at him, and saw with surprise that his face was drawn as if with pain, and his hands clenched the arms of his chair.” Is he remembering some past encounter? Or is it just that he knows what they are?
Tauriel: So let me get this straight sir, this Elwen girl is back on something called TORn, and rather than just tell her to stop stalking you, you'd like me to show up in a movie I have no business being in as a ploy to distract her, and nevermind the wrath of countless Tolkien fans who will be calling for my destruction?
Legolas: That about sums it up. Besides, some people might like you. Oh, and to be on the safe side, can we pretend to be a couple too?
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Fear and Loathing in the Shire
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Elwen
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Oct 2 2013, 6:47pm
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We, the reader don't know
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Hamfast Gamgee
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Oct 2 2013, 9:32pm
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Agreed on Crickhollow...
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Elwen
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Oct 3 2013, 8:19pm
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Yes, those early scenes are creepy
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Na Vedui
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Oct 2 2013, 10:04pm
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Is it horribly ignorant of me...
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Elwen
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Oct 3 2013, 8:33pm
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Shiver my timbers, shiver my soul - yo ho heave ho
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Meneldor
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Oct 3 2013, 8:48pm
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It's a classic//
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noWizardme
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Oct 3 2013, 9:27pm
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Thanks for the earworm. I'll be singing that all day.
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Elwen
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Oct 4 2013, 3:27pm
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Shiver my timbers, shiver my sails
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Meneldor
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Oct 4 2013, 3:31pm
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What is Aragorn thinking?
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noWizardme
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Oct 3 2013, 3:41pm
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It's hard to say for sure if Aragorn has met the Black Riders before Bree
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squire
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Oct 3 2013, 5:59pm
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Same here.
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Elwen
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Oct 3 2013, 8:31pm
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Even so, it kinda works
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noWizardme
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Oct 4 2013, 3:10pm
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Trotter
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Darkstone
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Oct 3 2013, 3:55pm
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O, that sucks
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noWizardme
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Oct 3 2013, 9:26pm
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If ever there was good publishing advice for a writer
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CuriousG
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Oct 4 2013, 12:26pm
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Once upon a time, I thought the sporadic allusions to Trotter were some "in joke" that I just wasn't in on.//
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Elwen
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Oct 4 2013, 3:33pm
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I would assume he hadn't had a past experience with them,
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RosieBaggins
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Oct 4 2013, 1:42pm
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Good point.
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Darkstone
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Oct 4 2013, 5:49pm
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Sarn Ford
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Na Vedui
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Oct 4 2013, 7:17pm
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