Blogpost #9 LOTR, the Two Towers

In the book, Gandalf and company have convinced King Theoden to meet the armies of Saruman at Helm's Deep. They are outnumbered five to one. It's at this point that you feel most sympathetic, where all the characters are at their lowest as well as their highest point. Tolkien does an amazing job making you feel sad for every elf that is killed because of how precious their lives are when considering the big picture, when most of their kin has died and the rest have left, but Galandriel and his people stay because they refused to give up on Middle Earth, and to forget the debt that they owe to Men. It's kind of funny really, considering I didn't really like the elves since the beginning of the first book, they seemed condesending and judging of others and  never tryed to inspire hope in Frodo when they met, if anything, they really made him feel worse for no reason. But the book made me feel sympathetic for people i didn't even like that much, and not because of some corny, before battle speech. It's these characters that can get an emotion out of me whether I disagree with what most of the characters opinions or i can relate to others. It's almost like they act like real people and not some cardboard cut out.