Timeline for Is there a passage in Lord of the Rings told from the perspective of an orc?
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| Jul 15, 2018 at 8:19 | vote | accept | Wade | ||
| Jul 5, 2018 at 15:09 | comment | added | Adam V | Isn't there also a (very brief) portion written from the perspective of the battering ram at Minas Tirith? | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 17:19 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | There is also a scene in Rivendell in "Many Meetings" where Frodo wakes and Gandalf tells him what happened when he was unconscious. That scene has a sentence recording Gandalf's thoughts about Frodo, which might or might not have ever been told to one of the hobbits who wrote the Red Book of Westmarch. | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 15:29 | comment | added | Beta | If you like text written from an orc's perspective, I cannot recommend The Last Ringbearer strongly enough! | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 12:17 | comment | added | Davislor | @DavidRoberts Since Bilbo met Frodo at Rivendell and learned the whole story up to then, and had little to do afterward but write, that makes perfect sense in-universe. But yes, the parts where the author tells us what animals were thinking who obviously never could have told the author have to be read as a literary embellishment. | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 10:39 | comment | added | Nicola Talbot | @DavidRoberts I like that theory. It fits in well with the change in narrative tone. | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 8:21 | comment | added | David Roberts | Re: the fox: I've seen a theory that says that Bilbo was essentially the author in the Red Book of the content of Book I of LotR (so up to when Frodo et al get to Rivendell), and he had a more...flowery style (cf the Hobbit, which is definitely in-universe written by Bilbo). So the description of the long expected party etc is very much close to the Hobbit (with enraged spiders and all) in style. In our world, Tolkien was of course trying to write the sequel to the Hobbit, and his story and style started that way and changed over the time he wrote LotR. | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 7:53 | comment | added | Nicola Talbot | @Davislor I'd forgotten about the fox. Frodo must've been on something when he wrote that bit. | |
| Jul 3, 2018 at 5:48 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1014022930693591042 | ||
| Jul 3, 2018 at 3:25 | answer | added | Scott | timeline score: 25 | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 20:22 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 33 | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 18:48 | comment | added | NathanS | @Wade I think Galastel's answer was what I was thinking of, a conversation between Shagrat and Gorbag. If that's not it either, then I'm afriad my suggestion wasn't quite right after all! | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 18:34 | comment | added | Davislor | Although there is a first-person internal monologue from a fox! scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35391/… | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 18:11 | answer | added | Galastel supports GoFundMonica | timeline score: 57 | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 17:49 | comment | added | Nicola Talbot | In-universe, the Lord of the Rings was written by Frodo (possibly ended by Sam, and following up from Bilbo's account of his adventure) so it doesn't really fit to have any passage written from an orc's point of view. It's mostly an omniscient narrator, or from a hobbit's POV, as far as I can remember. The only exceptions that I can think of are Aragon, Gimli and Legolas' hunt, and a character relating events in dialogue (such as Gandalf at the Council, and Legolas recounting the Paths of the Dead). | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 16:55 | comment | added | Wade | @NathanS I think that's not the right one, so maybe your comment will help us locate it! | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 15:37 | history | edited | amflare | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2018 at 15:32 | answer | added | amflare | timeline score: 84 | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 15:25 | comment | added | Daishozen | Could this be taking place when Frodo and Sam are hiding in the group of Orcs in Mordor? | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 15:19 | history | edited | TheLethalCarrot♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2018 at 15:13 | history | asked | Wade | CC BY-SA 4.0 |