Current Events > never read the lord of the rings, but this passage gives me goosebumps

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In rode the Lord of the Nazgl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face.
All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath Dnen.
"You cannot enter here," said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. "Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!"
The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kingly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter.
"Old fool!" he said. "Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!" And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade.
And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, recking nothing of war nor of wizardry, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.
And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns, in dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the north wildly blowing.
Rohan had come at last.

That's why it's understandable why the fans of Tolkien's works were rightfully appalled by Amazon's monstrotic rendtion of their shit-stirred version of LOTR.

Not even gonna lie, I just finished it a few days ago after restarting the book for the 2nd time this summer (I only got 100 pages into the book my first attempt) and that shit was a brutal read lol. But I respect the attention to detail the the vivid imagery he paints. Just seems like all the characters except Gandalf and Frodo seem like insignificant wastes of space lol.

I wouldn't recommend Andy Serkis simply because it makes it harder to separate the books from the movies. Your brain will more heavily view the books as novelizations of the movies than their own version of the story.

I wouldn't recommend Andy Serkis simply because it makes it harder to separate the books from the movies. Your brain will more heavily view the books as novelizations of the movies than their own version of the story.