As a kid, when reading Fellowship I got slogged down after the incident in Weathertop, and the journey through to Rivendell was just miserable and I couldn’t get through it.
I tried again and read the whole series after the movies came out. That bit was still miserable and a slog but I got to Rivendell, and no part of the rest of the books were as bad as Frodo being dragged through Mirkwood while wraithing out.
So, in Towers in the movie, there’s a notorious seen where the orcs are hungry and the uruks solve the problem by killing the complainer. It looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys! Which implies that orks and uruks have fine dining, but also are content to chew on a raw corpse. It’s one of the more referenced scenes in the Peter Jackson movie series.
Contrast the same (approximate) scene in the book: The company is on the move and one of the orcs hands Pippin and Merry a big piece of dried meat. Merry (I think) is skeptical and asks what it is, fearing it might be someone that walks on two legs. The orc tells him to check his privilege and mutters in black speech.
So…I would totally not be surprised if I’m only getting two-fifths of the story.
Well, the books were originally split into 6 parts I think and roughly all of part 5 is basically Frodo, Sam and Gollum in a swamp cooking potatoes from what I remember. I think they left most of that out of the movies for some reason, not sure why.
Isn’t this just The Last Ringbearer
That’s a pretty fun read. Would recommend for fans.
