The Lord Of The Rings The Two Towers Pdf Download
Hello, fellow readers! Today, I bring my opinion about the second book of The Lord of the Rings series. I hope you all enjoy!
I began to read The Two Towers with high expectations and I rejoiced again at Master Tolkien's writing. Besides knowing new parts of Middle-earth, like Rohan and the forest of Fangorn, we also know new characters, like Treebeard, Gollum and Faramir.
I believe that one of the character s that most captivated me so far was Faramir. It was very interesting to see not only him as an isolated character, but also the contrast of him with his brother, Boromir. Both were good and honorable men, but with distinct personalities. While Boromir proved to be more fearless, imposing, and more vulnerable to the influence of the Ring, Faramir is more restrained, a man of leadership, always very respectful and prudent, besides showing complete resistance to the Ring. This is one of the points that differ from the film, where he even arrests Frodo with the intention of using the Ring to defend Gondor, but ends up freeing him along the way. Still, both in the book and in the film, the reader very much sympathizes with him, who is one of the most charismatic characters in the series.
Overall, the personalities of the characters remain very well worked out, like Gollum's, which is fascinating. His split personality, caused by the time of exposure to the Ring, was very well portrayed. He seems to be always in conflict with himself, wanting to do evil and at the same time not wanting. It's incredible, for the amount of characters in this story, how they all seem to have a life of their own, which is quite evident in the dialogues, which is, in my opinion, one of the strongest points of both books. The way the characters develop the subjects is very organic and has a certain depth, even though the way of speaking represented in the plot is based on an old way of speaking. The characters have singularities in their own stories, they have experiences, and you see all their experience represented there.
And with the history of Middle-earth itself is the same thing. Everything is very detailed and very unique. Events, traditions, cultures; it's such a rich world that it gets more and more realistic. Something that's important to talk about writing a fantasy work is that, in order to make the story you want to tell engaging and interesting, you have to make the rules of your universe very well defined and clear to the reader. It's not because it's fantasy that anything can happen anyway. If the reader doesn't understand the rules of that fictional world, his immersion in the plot is compromised, because the story can end up being contradictory and confusing. And in the case of Middle-earth, you understand it very well, as if it was real, what makes it even more fascinating. In addition to the very detailed historical description, the environment description is very rich; the landscape, the relief, the climate and so on.
In this volume, the narrative is divided into two parts. In the first part, the reader follows the rescue of the hobbits Merry and Pippin, from their own point of view and from the point of view of Aragorn and Co., as well as the battle of the Helm's Deep, etc. In the second part, we have the point of view of Frodo and Sam until the end of the book. I think this division is interesting for two reasons: for making the narrative faster for me to go through (it still is, as the previous book, a bit slow to read, for some people, but it's more dynamic than the first) and for having given due attention to the friendship and trust between Frodo and Sam in the face of everything they go through, highlighting the chapter where they pass through Shelob's lair. In this chapter, Sam has risen even more in my ranking of all-time favorite characters, for sure. He is one of the best characters from the beginning, and it's just near the end of the book that Frodo actually begins to feel the burden of Ring Bearer, as well as the physical and psychological effects that the journey has been causing in him.
As I mentioned before, the narrative's rhythm begins a bit slow, but soon it "engages" and becomes much more dynamic. So far, this saga did not disappoint me and even exceeded my expectations, making me anxious to start the third book. Just remember that this is not an action saga, but a fantasy and adventure saga. I believe that many people begin to read it with the wrong expectation, thinking that there will be more battles and fighting, and end up getting disappointed. When you open one of the books of this saga, you have to keep in mind that you're following a journey, and journeys are unpredictable.
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