Timeline for Why did the Fellowship scatter so chaotically at Parth Galen?
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| Jun 23, 2018 at 13:45 | comment | added | Pryftan | Actually Aragorn attempted to organise things but out of fear for Frodo they all went before he could do so. And @BobbyNewmark the only reason he used the Ring there: to escape from Boromir and then he knew it'd be too difficult for the Fellowship particularly Sam and they would try and convince and prevent him from going on his own; the fact he knew what he had to do and was scared and there were uncertainties in the Fellowship made this all the more a reason for him to do it this way. Sam figures this out and then sees a boat moving on its own. | |
| Sep 22, 2015 at 4:52 | answer | added | peyre | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 28, 2015 at 19:45 | vote | accept | Wad Cheber | ||
| May 23, 2015 at 0:44 | comment | added | Bobby Newmark | I have wondered the same thing. When Frodo asks Giladrael why he can't use the ring she asks him if he's ever tried. Later she says that he "begins to see with a keen eye", when he can see her ring and Sam can't. Perhaps he is using the ring to make everyone scatter, because he knows he has to go on alone, but it would be nice to have a letter or something to verify it. | |
| May 22, 2015 at 17:54 | comment | added | Wad Cheber | @BMWurm you are right, of course, but when Tolkien needs something to happen, he usually gives us convincing reasons why it happens- here he didn't offer us much of anything. Hence my question. | |
| May 22, 2015 at 17:45 | comment | added | BMWurm | From a story-telling point of view we have to consider the fact, that Tolkien uses the members of the Fellowship as narrators of his plot - like Martin, only less violent - he needed them to freak so that he could break them up and tell all the other stories he needed to tell - Rohan & Helm's Deep with A,L & G, Minas Tirith with P (and the White Guy), Gollum and Mordor with F&S, Saruman and Treebird with M&P and the Rohirrim with M. As you remarked HorusKol gave an excellent in-universe justification for it happening - but if cooler heads had prevailed, TTT would have had no plot :P | |
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| May 22, 2015 at 5:43 | comment | added | jamesqf | Remember the old military advice: When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout :-) | |
| May 22, 2015 at 4:48 | answer | added | HorusKol | timeline score: 22 | |
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| May 21, 2015 at 23:32 | history | edited | Rand al'Thor♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 21, 2015 at 23:23 | history | asked | Wad Cheber | CC BY-SA 3.0 |