I’m looking for some themes that can be found in the Two Towers and some quotes that support them. Quite a book, it’s hard for me to focus on it the entire time, so I’m just going to make this pretty general and see what kind of responses I get.
If you’re going to cheat by having us do your homework for you, which not just watch the movies and cheat on your own?
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My apologies Dr, wasn’t sure where to put it so I stuck it in the most generic-sounding forum.
fatdave : meh, I’m reading the books, taking notes, but multiple opinions never hurt, right? Granted that I’m reading the ~500 page book rather than The Pearl, weighing in at a whopping 94 pages, I’m not exactly a huge slacker
You should remember that the Lord of the Rings is not truly a trilogy as such. Tolkien originally wrote it as one huge novel, but his publisher wanted to break it down, to make it easier to read and to sell, that being the case, themes that are significant in the Two Towers are the same as those throughout the story.
However, you could easily find more specific examples for each theme in each particular part of the story,
i.e. the Ents representing an old forgotten nature abused by modern industry.
Pearl?
As in
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Given the choice, always choose the poem to analyse. Much higher bullshit levels can be achieved.
Here’s a nice synopsis of each of the books of LOTR. Enjoy!
Um, DrFidelius, he said The Pearl, not “Pearl”. As in the book by Steinbeck, I presume (that being a very common high school reading assignment).