Symbolism

Lord Of The Rings--Fellowship Of The Ring

Symbolism:
One symbol is the ring itself, the ring that "rules them all"-- the one Frodo has to destroy. The ring represents dark times, struggle, pain, and the side of life that isn't always good and happy. Everyone who has ever had the ring has come to ruin or near ruin. For example, Gollem or Smeagol found the ring years ago. After becoming obessed with it, he hid into the mountains, and after Frodo and company find Gollem, he hasn't healed completely, and most likely never will. The ring's power drives those who weilds it crazy for power, so crazy they would do anything. Thousands of years ago ( in the book) there was war waged between everyone in Middle-earth, dwarfs, elves, humans, wizards, etc. The war was all for the ring, because one man had become evil with it, and was trying to conquer everyone with his power.

Lord of the Rings : Fellowship of the Ring

Yeah, so I watched all three movies in the movie theater years ago, when they first came out. I liked it, so I'm reading the book now.
I'm at page 353, near the end of the book. So far, almost everything that I've read has been acted out by the movie. The movie actually follows the book nicely, and it doesn't cut off parts that make viewers confused.
In the book, Frodo and company have already found their way out of dark mines that have dangerous creatures and orcs inside. Now they are with elves, especially those elves who were given rings of power years ago.
Now that I read the book, I really like the way the movie portrayed the characters. I think it came out to fit perfectly, unlike some movies (I heard Twilight is going to have Cedric from Harry Potter, I think that's wrong!).
Although, when Gandalf died or "died", I'd expected a lot more from the book. After the movie, I automatically assumed that the director cut off some parts of the book, but i guess not.
The book has some boring parts that makes me want to fall asleep, but there are other chapters that sucked me in, and I just sat there, ignoring my homework and reading.

I'll finish this book by next week, and start on the sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, which is Castle In the Air.

Howl's Moving Castle : Finished

Howl's Moving Castle: Finished.

Freewrite:

It took me about two weeks to finish Howl's Moving Castle. After doing so, I watched the movie, and I realized from the first ten minutes that the movie was going to be drastically different from the book. While I read, I visualized the story, and my visualization and the movie were completely different. Maybe it's because the director and I interpreted details differently, or because thats just how our imaginations took us. The book introduces a character, " Miss Agnorian" and the movie has no mentions of her. While the book and movie share the Witch of the Wastes, the main antagonist, she wasn't the only culprit that tried to sabotage Sophie.

I thought that Howl's Moving Castle was an easy book to read, and I didn't end up learning new vocabulary from it, but it was entertaining and fun. At the start, it gave me a Harry Potter feel, and I thought that a wizard or witch with wands and spells would be after the life of the 'good' character. But as I read on, the plot developed differently from the Harry Potter series. I shouldn't expect every fantasy book to have a Harry Potter theme inside, but I do now, because I'm so used to reading those types of fantasy books.

I am currently reading The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Howl's Moving Castle

I chose to read Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. It was recommended by a few of my friends and some classmates.I know that it's been turned to a movie a few years ago, and even though I wanted to watch it, I never got to doing so. Usually if a movie is based on a book, I want to read the book first, because the book is the original version.

So before I watch the movie, I want to finish this book, then watch the movie and compare the two. After finishing this book, that would take me about three weeks, I expect to be able to fully understand the book, and to maybe learn some new words as I read, because it always happens for me. Diana Wynne Jones isn't American, but English and she writes a lot of fantasy novels that have made her well known. Her books and the Harry Potter series are compared frequently, because of the similar characteristics.

She studied English at St Anne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, which is surprising because she must have been influenced by them, since the two authors are known for their fantasy fiction books.

This book will take me around three weeks to finish.