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Scholars and critics have remarked the narrative structure of the first part of the volume, which involves five "Homely Houses", the comfortable stays alternating with episodes of danger. VI - The Old Forest - Although trying to avoid it, the hobbits get lost and travel to the River Withywindle, the "queerest part of the whole wood". Frodo is stabbed upon the mountain of Weathertop by the Lord of the Nazgûl with a Morgul-knife - as part of the knife stays inside him, he gets sicker on the rest of the journey. Tolkien wrote that the title The Two Towers "can be left ambiguous", [T 12] but considered naming the two as Orthanc and Barad-dûr, Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, or Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol.

Frodo, broken by the quest, leaves a few years later, sailing from the Grey Havens over the Sea to find peace. T 11] To those who supposed that the book was an allegory of events in the 20th century, Tolkien replied in the foreword to the Second Edition that it was not, saying he preferred "history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers.

This is the tale of Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, homebody hobbit (a race of short, furry-footed people who live in underground homes).

Frodo resolves to set out alone for Mordor, reluctantly accepting Sam's steadfast refusal to stay behind. It leads us through a succession of strange and astonishing episodes, some of them magnificent, in a region where everything is invented, forest, moor, river, wilderness, town and the races which inhabit them. XII · Flight to the Ford — Aragorn takes the hobbits off the Road and into the Wild to avoid pursuit by the Black Riders. The chapter parallels the far simpler Beorn chapter in The Hobbit, which similarly presents a culture-clash of the modern (mediated by the Hobbit) with the ancient (the heroic Beorn).When Bilbo Baggins suddenly disappears from his 111th birthday party, his beloved ring falls into the hands of his young heir, Frodo Baggins. I may also be partial to Frodo/Samwise as played by Elijah Wood and Sean Astin, respectively, because Samwise is the ultimate friend. Bilbo celebrates his eleventy-first (111th) birthday and leaves the Shire suddenly, passing the Ring to Frodo Baggins, his cousin [a] and heir.