Lord of the Ring The Two Towers

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Lord of the RingThe Two Towers

• BOOK 4

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The Two Towers Book 4 Plot Summary

• Gollum
• Journey Dead Marches
• Ithilien, Faramir
• Minas Morgul
• Shelob
• Choices of Sam

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The Two Towers Book 4 New Characters

• Faramir

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The Two Towers Book 4 Monsters and other
Creatures

• Gollum, Smeagol
• Ringwraiths
• Shelob

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The Two Towers Book 4 Important Objects

• Phial of Galadriel
• Connection to other stories and to all other
  lights

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The Two Towers Book 4 Settings

• Wasteland
• Desolate, barren, bleak landscape
• Bad smell Dead Marshes, Shelob
• Jagged mountains, minimal vegetable growth
• Nightmare quality, endless stairs
• Ithilien
• demi-Eden amid wasteland

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The Two Towers Book 4 New Worlds

• Mordor

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The Two Towers Book 4 Themes

• Mercy / Pity
• Frodos pity for Gollum
• Schizophrenia / two sided characters
• Gollum/Smeagol
• Parallel between Frodo and Sam
• Parallel between Frodo and Gollum
• Facing shadow self

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The Two Towers Book 4 Parallels

• Three hunters in Book 3
• diversity
• Sword, ax, and bow
• Three travelers
• similarities
• Frodo, Sam, and Gollum
• Hobbits
• Merry and Pippin captured by Orcs, highlight of
  quest
• Frodo and Sam captured, just part of larger quest

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The Two Towers Book 4 Parallels

• Books 4 and 6
• Wasteland world
• Little action, mostly psychological
  characterization
• Man against nature, landscape
• Books 3 and 5
• Green world
• Action filled, mostly significant actions, like
  battles
• Man against other beings

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The Two Towers Book 4 Parallels

• Graveyards
• Dead Marshes, battlefield of Last Alliance
• Mounds in front of Edoras
• Barrow Wights near the Old Forest
• Wounds
• Frodos second wound from Shelob
• First was from Nazgul on Weathertop

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The Two Towers Book 4 Motifs

• Triangle
• Frodo, Sam, Gollum
• Glory as antidote to death
• Individual story/quest/trials only part of larger
  Quest/history of world