To my utter delight, I have finally been given access to join this fun "club", Back-Blogged. As an avid reader, sometimes video game player, and a lot of unwatched movies owner, I think I will do alright.Over this break, out of chance, I stumbled upon Steve's sister watching the last 30 minutes of The Fellowship of the Rings. Even though I had labeled these movies as boring before seeing them, it seemed pretty awesome. So I flew through the movies and then hoping to get more detail, I delved into the books. Seeing as I wasn't a member of back-blogged during The Fellowship of the Rings I won't talk about it. Since Steve just logged this I won't go into a ton of detail. The Two Towers was my least favorite movie because it skimmed over important details in my mind, so I was excited to read the book. The book definitely succeeds where the movie lacks. I learned more about about the men of Rohan, discovered Faramir's compassion, and ventured through Entwood with Merry and "Berry".
However, where the book lacks, the movies make their most awesome parts. Like Steve said, Helm's Deep is a mere chapter. Also, the order of the book was quite different. Instead of flashing back to each of the company, they first part of the book is about Merry and Pippin's journey, the second part follows Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, and the third part (and longest) follows Gollum, Frodo, and Samwise's trek to Cirith Ungol. I was happy to hear more about Merry and Pippin, and to my dismay, Legolas and Gimli were not main roles at all (my two favorite characters in the movies). In addition, the book includes a lot of the third movie. Pippin finds the palantir (black gazing ball) and Frodo and Sam encounter Shelob. Also as an added bonus, Gandalf the White has dealings with Sauron at the top of the tower in Eisengrad which I believe foreshadows a whole piece of the third book missing in the third movie.
With that, I'm off to read the third book to find out what crazy additional antics the ring gang gets into.
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