Tuesday, April 15, 2014
The Two Towers-Setting
The Two Towers is a great read for people looking for vintage and challenging diction. Most of the diction in the book is describing the setting. Like most Fantasies The Two Towers takes place in a medieval time. I know this because they use swords and live in a time with magic. For the place in which they are, it is a mystical land known as Middle Earth, it has different regions similar to Earth with common features like mountains and forests. "But out of the deep shadow of the dale rose a vast spire of smoke and vapor; as it mounted, it caught the rays of the sinking moon, and it spread in shimmering billows, black and silver over the starry night." (119) This is a great example of the imagery of how Tolkien likes to describe the scene around the characters, that is unfolding. Tolkien creates this world that you feel you could live in, its all most like I'm a ghost following the people around. Tolkien creates this world that not only the characters live in but us as readers do too. I feel as if so many people like Tolkiens book because the setting is so well described that people want to be in this world.
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Great job on this blog, Ian. I liked your use of higher-level vocabulary. I also agree with your thought that people enjoy The Lord of the Rings because they want to be in Middle-Earth. Every night before I go to bed I pray for three hours that I'll wake up in Minas Tirith. It hasn't worked yet, but I'm sure it will someday.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that Tolkein's vocabulary has rubbed off on you, Ian. I believe that most fantasy stories seem to use elevated diction because the worlds described in the story have never been seen before so small detail must be used to the writer's advantage to help the reader envision this entirely new world that the writer has crafted. As helpful as elevated diction can be, if the reader stumbles over too many words, it can hinder their way across the book.
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