Jonesmikey’s Comments (group member since Nov 16, 2013)

Jonesmikey’s comments from the The Nerd Herd group.

I'm due to pick them up again in a year or two. I really like Sam's inner dialogue about what a great garden he could have.

I just thought it was a really poignant moment in the book when Pippin died. I'm not saying I cried but it was definitely moving. Then later on I find out that it was rather silly of me to be moved by his death.

What's one Hobbit, more or less. Hah! I've been thinking, who am I to say what I don't like about LOTR? I guess that one little thing hasn't stopped me from reading the whole series five times now.

I don't know. I really like the scene when he dies. He kills the troll, then the troll is collapsing on him and he knows he's dying and he resigns himself to it. Then he hears "The Eagles are coming, the eagles are coming!" Then the chapter's over. Powerful stuff.
But later on he's back. And he's a servant.

Does anybody else think it's lame that Gimli saved Pippin. I think he should have died heroically killing that troll.

Melisquish wrote: ":) did you know that a lot of people think that Sam is the main protagonist?"

I'm one of those people. The internal monologue is always Sam's, not Frodo's. After Mount Doom it's Sam that we all see getting woken up by Gandalf. Not Frodo.