/lit/ - Literature

>>23855168
I watched the LotR movies years ago, so while I do remember scenes and the overall plot they're not fresh in my mind. I started reading The Hobbit last year, now I'm reading The Silmarillion after finishing LotR and I love it.

>>23855466
>>23857162
>>23857257
The army of the dead wasn't even present on the Pelennor fields. To add to this, I think the movies' biggest sin was downplaying Frodo. He grows wiser and wiser during his quest, and even at the start he's incredibly courageous.

For example he stands his ground against all nine nazgûl while on the brink of (un)death; when he arrives at the Morannon, the front gate of Mordor, probably the closest thing on Middle-earth to a door into hell at that point in time, he basically tells Sam "I'll have to march in if I have to" and Gollum has to convince him to take the route through Cirith Ungol. There's genuinely few people with balls that big in the history of Middle-earth, at least from what I've read so far.