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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7390941" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Well, they are certainly 'regular folks'. There ARE a few other brief points when Tolkien touches on the lives of normal people. He makes a few comments about them at Minas Tirith, describing a few of the more mundane aspects of the city for a couple of paragraphs at very point where Grond hammers down the city gate and then the Nazgul hear the dying cry of their king, and the Army of Sauron hesitates. There are a few more paragraphs in this vein later when Aragorn enters the city and heals some people, but its pretty thin. There are a few other minor points, a few mundane things happen at Helm's Deep, etc. I actually thought those were the high points of the story, in a literary sense. Tolkien contrasted them nicely with some of the epic action going on in the foreground, but it seemed like there should have been more. OTOH every such scene risks turning ME into a real living place and breaking the 'spell'.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7390941, member: 82106"] Well, they are certainly 'regular folks'. There ARE a few other brief points when Tolkien touches on the lives of normal people. He makes a few comments about them at Minas Tirith, describing a few of the more mundane aspects of the city for a couple of paragraphs at very point where Grond hammers down the city gate and then the Nazgul hear the dying cry of their king, and the Army of Sauron hesitates. There are a few more paragraphs in this vein later when Aragorn enters the city and heals some people, but its pretty thin. There are a few other minor points, a few mundane things happen at Helm's Deep, etc. I actually thought those were the high points of the story, in a literary sense. Tolkien contrasted them nicely with some of the epic action going on in the foreground, but it seemed like there should have been more. OTOH every such scene risks turning ME into a real living place and breaking the 'spell'. [/QUOTE]

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