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The Return of the King

J.R.R. Tolkien

Science Fiction

60 pages

This week I was reading the part of the book that is mostly talking about Frodo’s and Sam’s journey. The part where Frodo and Sam together with Smeagol came to the City of Dead.  That is when they start climbing the mountain to cross over to Mordor. When they came up to the half of the mountain they had to rest so they can be fully prepared for the rest of the journey. Through out the whole story Smeagol is trying to steal the ring from Frodo, so what he does he takes some Hobbit Bread from Sam’s bag and throws it away down the mountain. When they woke up Sam took his bag and told tried to find the bread but he couldn’t find it so he said to Frodo “Where is the Bread?” Frodo said that he does not know and Smeagol does not eat the bread. So then Frodo thought that Sam ate it while he was sleeping so he told him that they will continue with out him to Mordor. While reading this section of the book I learned that you should never believe to people that you met for the first time in your life that you should always believe to the people that you know all of your life. The development between the two characters Frodo and Sam got decreased because they got in to a big fight and they spilt up Sam started to go home while Frodo continued his journey to Mordor with Smeagol. What I read this week was very good because it had a lot of action in it. Also the choice of words the author used to explain the situation was really good. What I think will happened in the story next is that Sam is going to realize that Smeagol tricked him and that he will to hurry up to Frodo to help him.  The passage that I chose is in the beginning of the book and it goes like this:

"Pippin looked out from the shelter of Gandalf's cloak. He wondered if he was awake or still sleeping, still in the swift-moving dream in which he had been wrapped so long since the great ride began. The dark world was rushing by and the wind sang loudly in his ears. He could see nothing but the wheeling stars, and away to his right vast shadows against the sky where the mountains of the South marched past. Sleepily he tried to reckon the times and stages of their journey, but his memory was drowsy and uncertain." (p. 13)

I like how the author began the book wit a really good choice of a scene and the explanation of the setting it is very good. Also the choice of the words he used to explain. This challenges me as a reader to sometimes read this kind of passages over and over aging till I don’t understand it completely.