![]() ‘Think, if you can! He can’t fly across rivers, and he can’t jump waterfalls. Sam passed his hand over his eyes, brushing away the tears. I love the way that Tolkien here gives us a glimpse into the way Sam’s mind is working and his thought processes we here see a very strong character who has the ability to think on his feet and think rationally despite pressure and panic. He screwed himself up to the point, sudden. ‘Your legs are too short, so use your head! Let me see now! Boromir isn’t lying, that’s not his way but he hasn’t told us everything. They all split up in order to search for the missing hobbit and it’s when Sam falls behind Aragorn in the search that he has a real lightbulb moment – I will go alone.’īoromir returns to the Company without Frodo and noone has seen Frodo in all that time, so now the anxiety levels reach a new high realising that Frodo had vanished an hour ago and that he had felt the need to put on the Ring.Ī sudden panic or madness seemed to have fallen on the Company. ‘This at least is plain: The evil of the Ring is already at work even in the Company, and the Ring must leave them before it does more harm. A great weariness was on him, but his will was firm and his heart lighter. After spending some time alone on the summit and ending his ‘rest’ totally freaked out, Frodo knew what he must do.įrodo rose to his feet. So at this stage in the story, Frodo has done one of his famous ‘disappearing acts’ in order to give Boromir the slips but in the process given everyone else in the Fellowship a bad case of anxiety as to his whereabouts.Īfter his encounter with Boromir, Frodo fled blindly into the wild, following the path to the hill-top until eventually reaching the summit of Amon Hen and making himself comfortable in the high seat the Seat of Seeing, an ancient chair built by the Men of Numenor. Gandalf fell into the abyss whilst fighting the (wingless) Balrog and has been lost to the depths of Moria, still grieving, the rest of the guys have just had to up and leave the relative safety and comfort of Lothlorien after almost a month of being there. Here we are at the final chapter of the Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two just over two months since the Fellowship set out from Rivendell on their quest to destroy the ring and things take yet another turn for the worse.
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