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Poll Question: Rate the RoTK book on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being the worst, 5 being the best). |
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Topic: ** Official RoTK Poll ** (Read 339 times) |
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Sarah
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** Official RoTK Poll **
« Thread started on: Dec 20th, 2002, 7:32pm » |
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Then post your thoughts on why you gave it that rating here! 
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Ithilwyn
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Re: ** Official RoTK Poll **
« Reply #1 on: Jan 14th, 2003, 2:56pm » |
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Truely an epic ending. And yet, the reader is faced with the inevitability of change; although good has won out, the world cannot simply go back to its days of innocence. When I first read the final book in sixth grade, this was difficult to accept; I didn't want my world to change, but the novel told me it must. Now that I am older (and hopefully wiser) I have learned to accept and in some cases embrace change. It is fun though to see my students struggling with these same things now. They don't like the end of the book. They don't like that Frodo leaves and they come to me asking, "Why?" I kind of wish I could tell them, "You'll figure it out in a few years."
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers--theives planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
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Re: ** Official RoTK Poll **
« Reply #2 on: Sep 21st, 2003, 12:36pm » |
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I loved the book it got ways more cool than ttt  
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Re: ** Official RoTK Poll **
« Reply #3 on: Nov 7th, 2003, 12:10am » |
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i absolutely loved this book. one of the aspects of tolkien i love is his way of truly summing up a story, he leave no stone unturned. there is no what happened to? questions. although just saying that now i kind of wished i heard whatever happened to Tom Bombadil or the EntWives? i've only read hobbit and LOTR though so maybe it'll be explained in another book. anyone
another aspect of ROTK that i loved, as well as hobbit, is the complete suprise endings. Smeigol, the eagles the scouring of the shire...some of it was a little predictable, like with aragorn but still was well done. i think though my favorite sequence of dialog in the whole of the three books still has to be where frodo and sam are wondering if they'll ever end up in tales, the scene in the movies just floors me every time.
one sad note is that the whole of the "scouring" will not be in the film. that i think is probably my favorite segment next to the last march of the Ents, another part (which is totally different but still good in the movie) that chokes me up all the time.
I agree with you about the whole aspect of accepting change. it's funny, tolkien is described as a pessimistic personality. funny becuase in my opinion the whole of LOTR is about hope...it's also about "fighting the long defeat". which i guess is a lot like hope. to fight unbeatable odds even though in the end you're going to loose. and you do this because you know that there is some good in the world, and it's worth fighting for, to paraphrase.
greener patures...
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Re: ** Official RoTK Poll **
« Reply #4 on: Dec 6th, 2003, 2:50pm » |
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I truly love all the books, but I think that RotK is one of the best because you see what happens to every character that you have grown to know. 
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