![]() Most of us live somewhere where this happens, just before the sun comes up and the city wakes. In two sentences, I’m sure a lot of you know exactly what time in the early morning this is. Everything was still, and far-away noises seemed near and clear: fowls chattering in a yard, someone closing a door of a distant house. The leaves of trees were glistening, and every twig was dripping the grass was grey with cold dew. It’s not even that his diction or vocabulary is particularly complex either: ![]() I want to feel like I’m hovering just over the action and watching it unfold, and Tolkien delivers exactly what I want. That’s what I want writing to do, in whatever way that the author tries to pull it off. What this does here is not only give me an expectation of disaster, but I can feel what the forest does to these four characters. The joy and happiness of the last five chapters is almost universally gone, and Tolkien trades this with a foreboding and daunting tone. The tension and the terror of the Old Forest permeates well throughout the pages, another sign of how much better written this book is. I just love chapter six, okay? I really do. Again, this is a dense novel for sure, but it’s not at all in the way that I expected. To be fair, a lot of my favorite novels ( The Stranger, The Plague, Crime and Punishment, etc) aren’t exactly new novels, but I love finding books that distinctly go against the idea that only recent literature is worth reading. Tolkien’s grasp of world-building, tension, and character development is really unbelievable to me in the very best way. I keep having to stop and remind myself that this was published in 1954. ![]() Intrigued? Then it’s time for Mark to read The Lord of the Rings. In the sixth chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring, it takes all of ten pages for the group to face danger in the Old Forest.
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