The Two Towers

[Ellie_Greenleaf]

All of the books are very good

So what did you like best about this? You should develop your posts more so it can open discussions, I'm not being nasty but you haven't put why you like this book or anything so it's a bit pointless... sorry

I am reading TTT again at the moment (I am just about to start The Road To Isengard chapter again). At the beginning the Riders of Rohan chapter seems so long compared to the Departure of Boromir chapter at the beginning as that chapter is only 7 and a half pages long! I am enjoying this book a lot more the second time round as I wanted to get it read as fast as possible so I could read ROTK before the film came out so I didn't pay a lot of attention but now I am noticing little things that I overlooked before. And I have enjoyed the Treebeard chapter more this time because I was just like "Oh yeah... Entwives left them, whoopydoooo!" And when I read it I really got into it and I really wanted to know why they left the Ents and stuff

[True_Ent]

I absolutely LOVED the treebeard chapter. I found it really interesting and everything and it was the source iof my ent obsession. It was just so rich and deep in its history of the ents and things. I loved it. Especially this passage....

Pippin looked behind. The number of the Ents had grown- or what was happening? Where the dim bare slopes that they had crossed should lie, he thought he saw groves of trees.But they were moving! Could it be that the trees of  Fangorn were awake, and the forests were rising, marching over the hills to war? He rubbed his eyes wondering if sleep and shadow had decieved him; but the great grey shapes moved steadily onward. There was a noise like wind in many branches. The Ents were drawing near the crest of the ridge now, and all song had ceased. Night fell, and there was silence: nothing was to be heard save a faint quiver of the earth beneath the feet of the Ents, and a rustle, the shade of a whisper as of many drifting leaves. At last they stood uopn the summit, and looked down upon into a dark pit: The great cleft at the end of the mountains: Nan Curunir, the Valley of Saruman.
'Night lies over Isengard,' said Treebeard.

I just think the sheer power of the passage , the dominance, and the threat that the Ents pose. Its just amazing. Amazing writing.

[elbereth]

that must have been creepy to say the least....remember when Pippen and Merry were telling the story to the others....they said that it was scary hereing the Ents prepare to go to war....and to see the trees being herded....send shivers down my spine to think about it...

[MrsBloom]

i like the part where they were hidden when riders of rohan came and  when legolas defended gimli that was nice compared to when they first meet.

legolas was very brave
it is exciting whenever they talk about elves
i love elves

[Chokolate Thunda]

lol.

i thought that was a very nice part too.  shows what spending time with others will do.    im glad they become friends and in the appendices says they might have gone across the sea together as the last of the fellowship to leave middle earth.

nice touch.

[gimli_david]

it´s good. I like gimli´s comments at the helms deep...

[coffee10]

I love all of the lotr books. TTT is probably my 2nd favourite, rotk is my fave.

[Chokolate Thunda]

i think anyone who posts on one of these topics likes the lotr books, i'm glad peter jackson lightened the movie up a tad, b/c the book was rather dark, reflecting on the world's end, and such....

[elbereth]

well it should be that way...after all they didn't know how far Frodo and Sam had gotten...or what was going to happen at Mordor...when they got there...or if they would even get there...

[GG]

There seemed to me to be some parts of TTT that took me straight back to Bilbo's journey in The Hobbit, especially the part where Merry and Pippin first enter Fangorn forest.  It reminded me so much of Mirkwood that I was expecting there to be spiders, not ents.

[Chokolate Thunda]

i like how tolkien did cross reference several of the books, his world is truely amazing (i know i keep saying that! )

[Lady Arwen]

It's all part of his art of creating a new world in which we all seem to belong,which we can all feel as our own.I don't think the movie really achieved that,it was more focused on the rendering of the dramatism and the action,whereas the book takes us slowly into its universe,creating a kind of "suspension of disbelief".

[Doodle]

Like I have said in the Return Of The King topic. I haven't read the books. But. I do really like the progression of the journeys that the broken fellowship take.
Frodo and Sam force a stronger bond between them. And Pippin and Merry are brave also when they are captured at the end of the first film, by the Uruk-Hai. And manage to escape and be looked after by Treebeard.

[beetlejuice]

TTT was by far my favourite book out of all the trilogy, though i still liked the other ones

[*~GoLdBeRrY~*]

I like the way TTT follows the three different paths of characters, Frodo & Sam, Merry & Pippin, and Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli & Gandalf. It's done really well, and you dont get confused like you would if some authors tried to do this. Although, i did feel it drags a little in places. Not my favourite book in the trilogy, but brilliant none the less!

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