The Hunt Is On!

THE DAY

February 27th, 3019 TA

To begin with, Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas have been running all night, and stopped for just a teeny bit before dawn. Then they found five dead orcs. This was, of course, a result of a food fight over the hobbits. The movie, though it had to squeeze some events together of course, did a pretty accurate rendition of Merry and Pippin with the orcs. Merry did in fact have a cut on his forehead. There was a fight. And they carried them exactly as we see them doing in the movie. Of course, they had to put Fangorn, Orc-fight, and Eomer attacking the orc band all in one night. But these sorts of things are inevitable in movies. 

'Now,' thought Pippin, 'if only it takes that ugly fellow a little while to get his troop under control, I've got a chance.' A gleam of hope had come to him. The edge of the black knife had snicked his arm, and then slid down to his wrist. He felt the blood trickling on to his hand, but he also felt the cold touch of steel against his skin.

All of this technically happened last night. Exciting. Which means it spans the 26th and the 27th, but there was already enough going on yesterday, so I am plunking it in here. I should also like to mention that, courtesy of Tolkien, I read through Aragorn finding the bodies of the orcs, and then had to go FORWARD 24 pages to watch them get killed. I shall have to go forward a good deal more to get to what happened to Frodo on the 26th after he left with Sam. Its a rather odd way of writing a book, can be annoying at times, but is also rather clever. It makes it quite suspenseful. It is also rather difficult to pull off well, and I have just had the privilege of reading a book that attempted to follow this style of telling a bunch of the story, and then going all the way back to the beginning to tell it from another character's point of view. It was not good. Said nameless book tried a good deal to hard to do something weird with the timelines, and in the end it made the timelines not match up properly, and did a few rather impossible things. One must be very careful if one is to set their timeline up this way. 

Now, as I so kindly neglected to mention yesterday, Eomer happened to hear of the orc band coming down from Emyn Muil, and now today, he set out after them against Theoden's orders. All this matter of him getting angrily banished and sent off to roam against his will is bilge. He left against the orders of his king, and was rather at fault, for all his intentions were honorable. In the end though, everything turned out splendidly, so he was forgiven. Reminds me of another incident in Gondor where someone broke a rule to try to help and even though he had the most honorable of intentions, was still required to face proper justice. Obviously, he was dealt with mercifully, but you get the idea. It wouldn't be an act of bravery to break the rule if you didn't still have to pay for it. The whole point is that the law is the law, and if you break it to help someone, it is a bit of a sacrifice. If you break it to defy a crazy person and help a bunch of good people, you will probably be dealt with mercifully, but that is not always the case. I am getting off on rather lengthy tangents today, but as they are all about LOTR, I think it is acceptable. NEXT.

Eomer sets out around midnight (yes I know, technically tomorrow, shut up. their days followed the sun, not some paltry 12 by 12 plan. Some day I shall speak further on that) to pursue the orc band, and I conclude this day. 

My apologies for the shameful lack of quotes, but I kept getting distracted by wanting to read the whole book, and now I am out of time.

THE YEAR

3009

Appendix B, The Tale of Years 3009 "Gandalf and Aragorn renew their hunt for Gollum at intervals during the next eight years, searching in the vales of Anduin, Mirkwood, and Rhovanion to the confines of Mordor. At some time during these years Gollum himself ventured into Mordor and was captured by Sauron. Elrond sends for Arwen, and she returns to Imladris; the Mountains and all lands eastward become dangerous." 

 

(Lest there should be any confusion or matter of rights and whatnot, all quotes in this post are from The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. There may be slight errors, misspellings, or alternate punctuation in the quotes, and if you notice such, please inform me so that I can speedily remedy them. But I think the fact that I made this blog proves that I would never intentionally change something of Tolkien's in the transcribing of it.)