At dawn the horns sounded, and within an hour they took the road again. The slow night passed without tidings or alarm. They lit no fires, for they were uncertain of events but they set a ring of mounted guards about them, and scouts rode out far ahead, passing like shadows in the folds of the land. In a great circle, under the starry sky and the waxing moon, they now made their bivouac. They had ridden for some five hours and were far out upon the western plain, yet more than half their journey lay still before them. Forty leagues and more it was, as a bird flies, from Edoras to the fords of the Isen, where they hoped to find the king's men that held back the hosts of Saruman. Swift and enduring were the steeds of Rohan, but there were many leagues to go. Fearing to come too late, they rode with all the speed they could, pausing seldom. Far ahead and to their right the Misty Mountains loomed ever darker and taller they grew as the miles went by. There was a beaten way, north-westward along the foot-hills of the White Mountains, and this they followed, up and down in a green country, crossing small swift streams by many fords. Notes: Third of a four part series, designed to make readers more greatly wary of how "Lord of the Rings" WANTS his readers reinforced into certain ways of guarding the possibilities of their lives, so that de facto they never emerge out of being their own sort of "Gollums.The sun was already westering as they rode from Edoras, and the light of it was in their eyes, turning all the rolling fields of Rohan to a golden haze. ![]() If the text itself doesn't provide it, then the essay implies that text plus critic, text plus GUARDIAN, be thought of as the REQUIRED minimum for much textual contact, textual involvement, to be possibly presumed to be nourishing promote emotional evolution. So the true danger of the book is actually not really the way it TRAINS the reader, but the way it reinforces aspects of their world outlook that already malformed, and need, rather, the touch of true guardians, true friends, to learn to snap out of it. The essay, as guardian of the reader, doesn't confront the reader with this, but nevertheless still basically presumes that the reader already has a built-in inclination to "be brave" in ways that don't arose their internal censors, internal censors already built-in to their brain to deter them away from ways of thinking, overt "actions," that would arose threatens of ferocious parental attack or full-out casting off abandonment. of bravery, of the genuine kind, for something evil or bad, and mistake the text's inscriber - the author - as someone who actually isn't mostly afraid to see these traits manifest in the reader, while of course always pretending to himself the very opposite. tolkien, the lord of the rings, the two towers, object relations, Affect, Theories of affect Permanent URL: Abstract: This essay serves as a guardian, as a true friend of the reader, encouraging them to recognize that if they identify with the hobbits in this book, to be wary of the text trains the reader to become someone who would mistake their actual proud moments of self-decision, self-realization. ![]() Author(s): Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile) Date: 2017 Group(s): CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Subject(s): Affect (Psychology), Fantasy literature Item Type: Essay Tag(s): j.r.r.
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