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between_time_and_42I started reading The Return of the King and somehow, it’s taken me this long to get bored/confused with The Lord of the Rings. I was warned it might happen earlier, when I was reading Fellowship (specifically, I was warned about the Tom Bombadil chapter). But no… it took me until now- Volume 3, Book 5- to feel like I don’t really understand what’s going on and to feel impatient with the pace of the narrative. I’m not sure if that’s because I’m so anxious to see what happens to Sam & Frodo after finishing The Two Towers (even though I KNOW they end up okay), and therefore I feel like I’m wasting my time reading about the other characters, or if I’ve just hit a wall when it comes to reading & processing long, descriptive passages. I don’t know. I think it’s a little bit of both.
I’m not ready to start earnestly live-blogging yet, so I’ll just leave these moments here:
”’I am lonely, to tell you the truth. I left my best friend behind in Rohan, and I have had no one to talk to or jest with.’”
”Merry got up and yawned. His few hours’ sleep had not been nearly enough; he was tired and rather dismal. He missed Pippin…”
”All the same he had been lonely, and never more so than now at the day’s end. He wondered where in all this strange world Pippin had got to…”
NOOOOO MERRY & PIPPIN!!! Someone bring these two back together immediately! They’re a bonded pair, they can’t be separated!! (Though I didn’t really get the impression that these two were especially close until this part of the book- the friendship situation seemed to be more “Frodo is my friend and he is Frodo’s friend so he is also my friend” than the two of them being best friends in their own rights. I suppose their kidnapping at the hands of the Orcs and the time they spent together with Treebeard really forged a deep bond between them. And up until now, they always had each other on whom to rely, which must have been refreshing since all their other allies lead lives and have purposes that are so different from theirs. They understood each other better than any of their allies understood them… and now they have to be separated?? I can’t wait to see them reunite… and I especially can’t wait to see them reunite with Frodo, tbh.)
I’m not ready to start earnestly live-blogging yet, so I’ll just leave these moments here:
”’I am lonely, to tell you the truth. I left my best friend behind in Rohan, and I have had no one to talk to or jest with.’”
”Merry got up and yawned. His few hours’ sleep had not been nearly enough; he was tired and rather dismal. He missed Pippin…”
”All the same he had been lonely, and never more so than now at the day’s end. He wondered where in all this strange world Pippin had got to…”
NOOOOO MERRY & PIPPIN!!! Someone bring these two back together immediately! They’re a bonded pair, they can’t be separated!! (Though I didn’t really get the impression that these two were especially close until this part of the book- the friendship situation seemed to be more “Frodo is my friend and he is Frodo’s friend so he is also my friend” than the two of them being best friends in their own rights. I suppose their kidnapping at the hands of the Orcs and the time they spent together with Treebeard really forged a deep bond between them. And up until now, they always had each other on whom to rely, which must have been refreshing since all their other allies lead lives and have purposes that are so different from theirs. They understood each other better than any of their allies understood them… and now they have to be separated?? I can’t wait to see them reunite… and I especially can’t wait to see them reunite with Frodo, tbh.)
