I just defriended a few folks because my Friends page was getting unwieldy. I still like you all. I just can't keep up.

Pippin begins 'wonder[ing] if he was awake or still sleping, still int the swift moving-dream in which he had been wrapped since the great ride began.' The first paragraphs are full of sleep and dream references ( Read more... )

The only p.o.v. in this chapter is Sam's ( Read more... )

'It may indeed have been daytime now, as Gollum said, but the hobbits could see little difference, unless, perhaps, the heavy sky above was less utterly black, more like a great roof of smoke.' If it is day, there is no way to ascertain whether it is March 11, the day that according to the Tale of Years Gollum 'nearly repents'; or March 12, the ( Read more... )

Time anomalies become very obvious in this chapter. Seeing, and control over seeing, is a major theme ( Read more... )

Frodo will recover quickly, hobbit-like, after the destruction of the Ring, but will not leave the horrors behind as if they were dreams; many people interpret this as a return to his old self, only wounded. However the memory of horror is inseparable from the determination to learn from it, and that learning is part of a larger change of his ( Read more... )

Sam's point of view throughout, or else 'the hobbits' - no distinct Frodo point of view until the final few lines ( Read more... )

This is great. I am too shredded to sustain a thought and too exhausted to even make chapter notes before falling asleep, but this conversation keeps on going like the Everyready Bunny!

Round Three!.

I just filed the last tax of tax season. It is over until next January 10. I should get smarter soon.

This is another conversation in Caraloup's LJ that I want to be able to follow from here.

This is a conversation between Caraloup, Elderberry Wine and me that I want to be able to follow from here.