Cool. Wasn't sure because you kept mentioning that there was no mention of Frodo and Sam yet.Yeah, I get that each book in the trilogy is divided into 2 sub-books. And that Frodo and Sam won't show up till the second book of the The Two Towers. Gandalf's army and the trees just saved Aragorn, Legolas, Theoden, and Gimli is where I am now.
What do you mean by inaccuracies?Are there "inaccuracies" in the LOTR as there are in The Hobbit?
I wasn't really impressed with the magic rope of Sam's. It reminds me of Harry Potter's cloak of invisibility, weak plot development. Thought better of Tolkien. There are ways to have saved the rope as long as it had been longer. In the movie you are not sure the rope is magic. Looks more like the rope just slips off because Sam messed up the knot. Sam is more of a simpleton in the movies. I never liked books that used magic to do tricks. In Lewis magic is more profound in its workings. Caspian had a magic map but it wasn't important to the story. It was just a treasure he had acquired in his voyage.Finally reached book 4 in the The Two Towers.
It's the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books as a whole. That would be the one-to-one real-world equivalent.Does the Red Book of Westmarch have any one to one real world equivalent or is it just the series as a whole?
Not really. I believe the Hobbit page you're talking about might have been written by Tolkien as a way to explain things that changed with his writing of The Lord of the Rings (which took him about 16 years or so to write).The text of The Hobbit that I am reading starts off with, I guess, a rundown of publication errors, such as incorrect translations of the runes on Thror's map. Also, entire chapters apparently have some problems. Of course, I have not read the whole thing or different versions to be sure, but the very first page discusses this at length.
Yes, he does! What a great character!Theoden deserves respect.
It is essentially those books written in the perspective of the characters and a different font, with perhaps some new art, insofar as I can gather.It's the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books as a whole. That would be the one-to-one real-world equivalent.