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When I was in college I could barely read fiction. It took me about a year and a half to read the Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers
Over the past few days I finished the Two Towers, started and finished the Return of the King. I read most of the Return of the King today, about 300 pages. It feels so, so amazing to have my attention span back and being able to read again
Also the scouring of the shire is a weird chapter right? Like I'm not alone in thinking that it's a weird final quest after the story has ended?
It's very weird
Like Frodo and Sam have this massive climactic, exhausting final push to get to mount doom and then they accept death, and then everyone but the hobbits gets a send-off, and then... There's like this weird little rebellion plotline and Saruman is being a weird low-stakes villain? Like Saruman feels like a cartoon villain in this, not in an overly evil way, but just his plan is stupid and lame and then he just gets kicked out and dies. The tone is really weird, 19 hobbits and 70 (!) men die, and no one really cares that much, and it just isn't that important.
Thematically I guess it's important to show that the old ways are truly gone, and even the Shire wasn't safe from the war, but then it's stated that the Shire immediately became a safe place again and pretty much went back to normal. So like what's the point of this at all. Tbh it's the only time in all three books that I've not enjoyed reading that much.