My book is an "epic" story because it starts off with a complication; there are flashbacks etched throughout the story and it is written in third person, past tense. An example of on of these flashbacks is "Gandalf was thinking of a spring, nearly eighty years before, when Bilbo had run out of Bag End without a handkerchief".
I find that "The Lord of the Rings" series is like a series within a series because you are expected to know characters already from The Hobbit. However, "Fellowship of the Ring" is also like an orientation itself; reintroducing characters, the Ring and its background, and also how the adventure begins.
I seen the structure of the book as being a sort of metaphor or parallel universe to the one J.R.R Tolkien lived in 1945. The way the characters interact with other species in the book represents the way nations interacted during World War 2 in 1945. For example, Gimli and Legolas don't get along and get into arguments a lot while Frodo and Gandalf are allies. The war in Middle-Earth represents the Jewish Extermination war that raged in 1945.
I'm almost finished Fellowship of the Ring and I can't wait to start reading the next book in the Lord of the Rings series, The Two Towers. The Fellowship has given me pretty high standards for the rest of the series- I hope they are just as good!
I find that "The Lord of the Rings" series is like a series within a series because you are expected to know characters already from The Hobbit. However, "Fellowship of the Ring" is also like an orientation itself; reintroducing characters, the Ring and its background, and also how the adventure begins.
I seen the structure of the book as being a sort of metaphor or parallel universe to the one J.R.R Tolkien lived in 1945. The way the characters interact with other species in the book represents the way nations interacted during World War 2 in 1945. For example, Gimli and Legolas don't get along and get into arguments a lot while Frodo and Gandalf are allies. The war in Middle-Earth represents the Jewish Extermination war that raged in 1945.
I'm almost finished Fellowship of the Ring and I can't wait to start reading the next book in the Lord of the Rings series, The Two Towers. The Fellowship has given me pretty high standards for the rest of the series- I hope they are just as good!