Passage ID (Speaker, Context, Significance) - Two Towers
"_____ threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of _____ shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. ‘_____!’ he cried. ‘I am _____ son of _____, and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, Dúnadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil’s son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly!’"
Speaker: Aragorn
Context: Eomer and Rohirrim find Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas on the way to Fangorn.
Significance: Aragorn becoming kingly; Claiming son of Gondor after Boromir's death
Grima Wormtongue does what to the King of Rohan and for who
Spoke poisonous words into the King of Rohan's ear and has secret allegiances to Saruman
King that Gandalf revivifies.
What is King Theoden
"____ never forgot that hour in the great hall under the piercing eye of the Lord of Gondor, stabbed ever and anon by his shrewd questions, and all the while conscious of Gandalf at his side, watching and listening, and (so Pippin felt) holding in check a rising wrath and impatience."
Speaker: Pippin
Context: Just after pledging allegiance to Denethor
Significance: Pippin is tired, he is: feeling guilty about Boromir, telling Denethor everything, but still holding back important details to please Gandalf
Route that Aragorn takes to Minas Tirith
Paths of the Dead (Morthond Vale)
The men of Gondor call Gandalf this name
Mithrandir
‘What? Me, alone, go to the Crack of Doom and all?’ He quailed still, but the resolve grew. ‘What? Me take the Ring from him? The Council gave it to him.’
But the answer came at once: ‘And the Council gave him companions, so that the errand should not fail. And you are the last of all the Company. The errand
must not fail.’
Context: Sam taking the ring from Frodo thinking he is dead
Significance: Sam taking up the task and understanding the sacrifices made to get here; The weight of the task on him alone
What Smeagol swears to Frodo
To never let Him have it, and to serve the master of the precious
The brother of Faramir
Boromir
‘Why? Why do the fools fly?’ said _____. ‘Better to
burn sooner than late, for burn we must. Go back to your bonfire! And I? I will go now to my pyre. To my pyre! No tomb for _____ and Faramir. No tomb! No long slow sleep of death embalmed. We will burn like heathen kings before ever a ship sailed hither from the West. The West has failed. Go back and burn!’
Speaker: Denethor
Context: Thinks Faramir is dead
Significance: He thinks all hope is lost and is losing it; is in despair over himself, his house, and his city
Who demonstrates this Gondor saying: "The
hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known" and how
Aragorn; helping in the infirmary post-Battle of Minas Tirith
"Long had it been forging in the dark smithies
of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay." is this weapon inspired by the Hammer of the Underworld of old? (not a character sry)
GROND!!!!!!!
"Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my
land is fair!
When Spring is come to garth and field, and corn is in the blade;
When blossom like a shining snow is on the orchard
laid;
When shower and Sun upon the Earth with
fragrance fill the air,
I’ll linger here, and will not come, because my land
is fair
Speaker: Treebeard/Fangorn (Entwife part of song)
Context: Singing Entwives song to Merry and Pippin
Significance: Entwives are lost; song illustrates sorrow for losing them and need to find them
Legolas and Gimli bond in what battle and how
Helm's Deep; orc killing competition
Lord of Horses that bears Gandalf.
Shadowfax
In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him. The
one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.
Speaker: Sam
Context: Being tempted by the ring
Significance: Sam is a GOOD BOY; The ring tries its best to tempt him but he is immune because of his heart of gold and want for a humble garden
These are the factors that lead to the downfall of the Witch King of Angmar/ Lord of the Nazgul
Merry stabs him with the sword from Tom Bombadil, which incapacitates him; then Eowyn being no man takes him out
Eowyn's alias when she rides to war
Durnhelm
"I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs..."
Speaker: Faramir
Context: Frodo and Faramir are discussing the Ring - but not naming it
Significance: This is a morality test that Faramir passes, he is the goodest of good boys
This is how Faramir find Frodo and Sam
Sam's cooking
"Uglúk u bagronk sha pushdug
Saruman-glob búbhosh skai" Says this
An orc...Lugburz?
The Stones of Seeing do not lie, and not even the Lord of Barad-dur can make them do so. He can, maybe, by his will choose what things shall be seen by weaker minds, or cause them to mistake the meaning of what they see. Nonetheless it cannot be doubted that when Denethor saw great forces arrayed against him in Mordor, and more still being gathered, he saw that which truly is.
Speaker: Gandalf
Context: Convincing men of Gondor to ride to one final battle at the gates of Mt Doom
Significance: This is a crazy last-ditch effort to convince the men of Gondor to ride to battle without telling them too much information about Frodo's task
The hobbits return to the shire to find a mixture of corrupt law official and ruffians. How do they rescue it?
They raised an armed rebellion
This member of the guard forsakes his oath to Denethor to save Faramir
Beregond
"But the doors lay hurled and twisted on the ground. And all about, stone, cracked and splintered into countless jagged shards, was scattered far and wide, or piled in ruinous heaps. The great arch still stood, but it opened now upon a roofless chasm: the tunnel was laid bare, and through the cliff-like walls on either side great rents and breaches had been torn; their towers were beaten into dust. If the Great Sea had risen in wrath and fallen on the hills with storm, it could have worked no greater ruin."
Speaker: Narrator/Gandalf/Party traveling to Isengard from Helm's Deep
Context: Post Ent-War, Isengard in ruin
Significance: We see the crumbling of an empire; the shattering of Orthanc, which symbolizes industrialization falling
Upon confrontation with Saruman, this is thrown out of Orthanc and picked up by Pippin
The Palantir
Master of Westfold on the borders of the Mark that helps save Helm's Deep.
Erckenbrand
To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
West, west away, the round sun is falling.
Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling,
The voices of my people that have gone before me?
I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;
For our days are ending and our years failing.
I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.
Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,
Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling,
In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover,
Where the leaves fall not: land of my people for ever!’
Speaker: Legolas
Context: All have reunited and are catching up, sharing the love
Significance: The call of the sea is a longing of the homeland, to cross the sea to the undying lands; He loves the company but cannot ignore the call
Name all the female characters we meet and detail what happens to them
Galadriel - goes West to the undying lands
Eowyn - Marries Faramir; represents a renewed bonding between Rohan and Gondor; recognizes valor can be earned off the field of battle as well as on
Arwen - chooses to become mortal and marries Aragorn;
Rosie: Marries Sam, has two daughters. That's it
This Prince of Dol Amroth is next in line to the throne after the Stewards of Gondor and who's banner is a swan
Imrahil
"Kings made tombs more splendid than houses of the living, and counted old names in the rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry; in secret chambers withered men compounded strong elixirs,
or in high cold towers asked questions of the stars. And the last king of the line of Anárion had no heir."
Speaker: Faramir
Context: Speaking to sam and frodo about Gondor lore
Significance: Faramir has lost hope and tells the tales of his declining people
Frodo says these elvish words to activate the Phial of Galadriel
Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!
These two Orcs take Frodo's limp body from Shelob's lair.
Shagrat and Gorbag
‘I have come,’ he said. ‘But I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!’
"And with that, even as his eyes were lifted
up to gloat on his prize, he stepped too far, toppled, wavered for a moment on the brink, and then with a shriek he fell. Out of the depths came his last wail Precious, and he was gone"
Speaker: Narrator/ Frodo/ Sam
Context: Frodo failing at his task / Gollum stealing the ring and falling into the fire of Mt Doom
Significance: Evil conquers evil; you can only do so much to stave off evil but when you are at the brinks of doom, we all fall to its pressures. Frodo is not a saint - neither are we, none of us are purely good.
The elves all feel the calling of the seas. What non-elves depart from the Gray Havens?
Bilbo, Frodo, Sam (later), Gandalf, and Gimli
Sam's daughter's name
Elanor (Gardner) Fairbairn/ Elly