So Where Did Frodo Go?

gjrc said:
agreed, i found it a bit slow tbh. LOTR is an amazing book.
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Only gripe with the book, the trek Sam and Frodo took at the end once in the area around mount doom took forever.

My eyes were blitzing the pages wanting to get to the end.
 
very interesting. ive read the hobbit and LOTR but never really understood the whole undying lands thing. i was even more confused after watching the films.

it isnt really explained to the casual viewer who hasnt read the texts.

i was going to read the other books after LOTR but someone told me not to bother as it wasnt very good. probably shouldnt have listened and drawn my own conclusions. may pick them up.
 
robmiller said:
Lots and lots and lots. Read the books, they're absolutely fantastic :)

I'm so glad I read them before I saw the films. Part of it is that it's nostalgic to reread them, since I first read them in primary school, and part of it is that I have my own ideas of the characters and so Frodo isn't ruined by the quite frankly gash Elijah Wood.
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I was guttted they left out Tom Bombadil in the film :eek: Just goes from brandy buck warf to the prancing pony without any how they got there....
 
jcb33 said:
I was guttted they left out Tom Bombadil in the film :eek: Just goes from brandy buck warf to the prancing pony without any how they got there....
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there could have been another 3 hour film in that gap though. the spiders, getting stuck in the tree, and then bombadillo
 
Clerkin said:
there could have been another 3 hour film in that gap though. the spiders, getting stuck in the tree, and then bombadillo
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So... I got the extended edition hoping... but alas the extra hour was fun but no Tom..... they should make it as a TV Series a chapter a time.... :D
 
bringerofdecay said:
thank you for agreeing with me ;) seeing as i seem to be one of the only other people who think so, kiddy's book, pfft
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Don't get me wrong I still enjoy it, like I enjoy Harry Potter, but its most definitely a children's book. Thats who it was written for and you can definitely pick that up during reading it.

Spacky said:
Only gripe with the book, the trek Sam and Frodo took at the end once in the area around mount doom took forever.

My eyes were blitzing the pages wanting to get to the end.
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IIANM he's saying the Hobbit was the slow book?
 
jcb33 said:
I was guttted they left out Tom Bombadil in the film :eek: Just goes from brandy buck warf to the prancing pony without any how they got there....
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Wasnt Tom Bombadill the hardest guy in Middle Earth? He had a gander at the One Ring before chuckling and handing it back to Frodo :eek:
 
If I remember correctly tom bomadil was the personification of nature. The ring had no effect on him per se (I believe him looking after the ring was even mentioned in the books but dismissed) but as the darkness overtook the land it would have effected him as much as anything else.

I could be very wrong with this, it is a long while since I read the book.

Matt
 
Clerkin said:
there could have been another 3 hour film in that gap though. the spiders, getting stuck in the tree, and then bombadillo
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Spiders? I think you are thinking of the Hobbit. They did miss the whole Old Forest, Willow, Bombadil and the Barrow Wights though.
 
I have to admit that I'm a bit of a Bombadil fanboy. Purey because he is probably the only true enigma in Tolkien's world.

I don't think he's a personification of nature (despite being "Oldest and Fatherless")...I haven't made up my mind but I feel that his insistance that his powers are limited to 'Tom's lands' (near the barrows et cetera) may have some importance...

*n
 
Last post here.

Bombadil is either a Maiar who came to Middle Earth(Like Gandalf & Saruman)to protect the Olvar/Kelvar or he is simply a spirit like the Ents. Don't think any of the books actually confirm it.
 
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