Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the ring

Comments
1. Frodo and his companions are leaving Tom's house.
2. After saying their farewells they go off and soon find themselves in a deep dense fog. The horse's start to get scared and Frodos horse starts running wildly in fright.
3. Frodo then hears some sort of song and realizes that a barrow wight is upon them.
4. Frodo awakes to find him and his companions are tied up and then he sees a long pale arm coming from behind him. He then takes a dagger and hits it the barrow wight it cries in response.
5. Suddenly Tom comes out of nowhere and starts singing a song and the barrow wight flees in fear. Tom frees Frodo and his companions and they head out again Tom stops along the way and tells them he must go back but they should head to the village of Bree.
Questions.
1. What is a Barrow wight?
2. Why did it flee just because of a song?
3. Why go to Bree instead of just going to Rivendale?
4. Why didn't the Bright just kill them?
Vocab.
1. Trembling. To shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear.
2. Flank. The side of anything, as of a building
3. Bade. to express a greeting, farewell, benediction, or wish.
Literature Terms
1.Gothic Novel. The Lord of the Rings has a Gothic fell to it with constant terrors and dark settings.
2. Direct Characterization. The Barrow Wight is descirbed as a dark tall figure.
Final Comment
This Story keep getting Darker and darker as it goes on.

Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the ring

Comments
1. Frodo and his companion's are leaving Frodo's new home.
2. To make sure the that they are not seen by anyone especially the black riders they are going through the old forest. The others are terrified of this place.
3. While on the way through merry tells them how the trees in the forest are alive and will even try to harm them if they are not careful.
4. Suddenly they all feel very tired and they rest under an old willow tree but when they awake they find that the tree id trying to crush Pippin and Merry, And is trying to drown Frodo and Sam. Sam and Frodo get away but they aren't able to free Merry or Pippin. Then Tom comes along and sings a song to the willow tree and Merry and Pippin are freed. Not one of them have any Idea who this Tom is.
5. He Bring them all to his house deep in the Forest and They find he is a very kind cheerful person.
Questions
1. What exactly is Tom?
2. The riders don't even know what Frodo looks like So why are they going to all this bother?
3. Why are the trees so evil?
4. Why Does the Forest listen to Tom?
Vocab.
1. Spirit. The principle of conscious life.
2. Tinder. Small dry easily flammable objects.
3. Forest. A large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland.
Literature Terms.
1. Setting. A Dark almost Magical and dangerous Forest.
2. Irony. The Place Frodo And his companions seek rest trys to kill them.
Final Comment
This story has some of the best characters I've ever seen in a book.

Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the ring

Comments
1. Frodo, Sam, and Pippin are still on there way to Frodo's new home.
2. On the way There while walking down the road they encounter another black rider. They all quickly hide but the rider starts to sniff crawel torwards were Frodo is hideing then three eleves start coming down the road singing and the rider flees
3. Frodo and his friends talk to them and they are very cheerful. Frodo ask's to join them at first they refuse but then Frodo tells them of thr rider's and the eleves then turn very grim and asks him and his friend's to come with them.
4. The elevs led them to safety and one of the eleves warns frodo never to go near the rider because they are dangerous.
5. Frodo then finally arrives at his new house Where he tells his friends that he will be leaveing them to go to rivendale but they say to him that their going with him.
Questions
1. Who are the eleves?
2. Why do the rides sniff?
3. Why does Frodo leaveing a house he just bought?
4. What was the point of buying it when he's going to just leave it anyway>
Vocab
1. Enemy. Someone or something that is trying to hurt you or beat you in something, a rival.
2. Brew. a certain group of drink that was made in the same pot.
3. Fairy. A small boat that is usually found on lakes or rivers which takes people to the other side.
Literature terms
1&2 dramatic Irony. I'm putting both of mt Lit. terms together because their are two really good examples of dramatic Irony in the story. The first would be when frodo reveals that he is going to rivendall we know this but his friends don't. The second would be when Frodo tells the elves about the rider he knows it serious but they don't and he knows about the rider but they don't. The reader also knows which makes both cases dramatic irony.
Final Comment
It is really comgufseing what the riders are I still don't understand.

Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the ring

Comments
1. Frodo is now getting ready to leave the shire and move to Brandybuck.
2. He is selling his house and many of his other good possessions to the Sackville Baggin's whom more or less have hated Frodo through out the years.
3. Gandalf has gone off and left frodo to himself again in search of information.
4. Frodo has began his journey away from the shire with his friends Sam and Pippin.
5. On their way to Frodo's new home they hear a rider coming down the rode so they decide to get off only to see a man cloaked in black come down the rode. The rider gets off his horse right were Frodo and his friends are hiding and starts looking and sniffing. Frodo suspects the rider was looking for him.
Questions.
1. Why does Frodo sell Bag end to his own enemies?
2. What information is Gandalf looking for?
3. Why does merry have to go ahead?
4. Why does the Rider hide his Face?
Vocab.
1.cloaked.Something that covers or conceals.
2.plundering.To seize wrongfully or by force.
3.inquisitive.Unduly or inappropriately curious.
literature terms
1.irony. The home that Bilbo never wanted to fall into the Sackville Baggin's hands did.
2.anthropomorphic. you are allowed to read what a fox that see what the hobbits sleeping under a tree is thinking and it is very much like a humans thoughts.

Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the ring

Comments
1.Gandalf told Frodo more about the rings of power but then he did his test took Frodo's ring and threw it into the fireplace.
2.Gandalf asked Frodo if he saw any writing on the ring and Frodo answered yes.
3.Gandalf then told Frodo how no mortal can resist the ring s of power and told Fodo that the writing proved that this ring was forged by Saron.
4.Gandalf then described how that Saron was the dark lord of Mordor and how he nearly took over all of Middle earth. But eleves and men came together and took the ring from him.
5.The Ring was then taken by Isildur. Who then was betrayed by the ring and killed. It then fell into Golem's hands who murdered his best friend to get it. Then Bilbo and Frodo.
Questions
1.Why is this done now instead of it being in the mines like in the movie?
2.Who is Aragorn?
3.Did Sam hear them from the garden?
4.What are they going to do now?
Vocab
1.Bind.To wrap or constrain around something.
2.Pale.Very light or white.
3.Track.To fallow something by clues left behind.
Litature terms
1.Irony. The ring Isildur expected to protect him killed him.
2.Metaphor. You can;t really bring rings into the darkness and bind them.
Final comment
This story is really getting interesting it's so weird hoe it can start with a birthday party but then turn into a deadly story.

Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the ring

1. Frodo is dealing with many relatives seeking inheritance ever since Bilbo left.
2. Gandalf left very soon after Bilbo did and didn't come back for 3 years. He then left and Frodo has not seen him for 9 years.
3. Ever since Frodo got the ring he does not seem to get old and people are starting to notice.
4. Gandalf has returned and tell Frodo he suspects that the ring he got from Bilbo is one of the rings of power.
5. Gandalf says there is one more thing he can do before he is sure of this horrible news.
Questions
1. Why are the Elves leaving middle earth?
2. Why does the ring matter so much?
3. If this ring is so powerful why did Bilbo find it in the mountains?
4. What is this thing Gandalf can do?
Vocab
1.packet. A small group or package of anything.
2.tendency. A natural or prevailing disposition.
3.rumour. A story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty.
Literature terms
1. anthropomorphic. People suggest that the forest of Mirkwood is evil.
2. Irony. The ring that Bilbo left as a gift turned out as maybe being a evil ring of power.
Final Comment.
This book is really starting to get interesting.and the plot is coming into frame.

Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the ring

1. The story starts off years after the events in the Hobbit. In the neighborhood of habitation.
2. Bilbo is getting ready for his 111 birthday. He has invited all his friends family and even some of his enemies.
3. His dearest friend Gandalf has also come to the party. He is the only one who knows that Bilbo is leaving after the party.
4. Bilbo being the trickster that he is uses his magic ring that he found all those years ago in the mountains to turn invisible and makes his get away. Gandalf notices that Bilbo used the ring and grows very weary and scared for some reason.
5. Bilbo leaves the ring and all of his other possessions for Frodo, Bilbos nephew and heir.
Questions
1. Why Does Gandalf get scared of the ring?
2. Why did Bilbo invite his enemies?
3. Why doesn't the story actually tell how Bilbo leaves?
4. Why aren't any other of Bilbo's friend's from the hobbit present?
Vocab
1.spouted. To gush forth in a rapid stream or in spurts.
2.badger. To harass or urge persistently.
3.heir. A person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the letter's death.
Literature Terms
1. Dramatic Irony. The reader knows that something is going to happen at the birthday party but no else but Bilbo does.
2. setting. the setting of the story is in the shire at the moment.
Summary
The book is very interesting right now but it is sort of boring at the same time.