Incidentally, I started that little last post because I've finished with the Two Towers, which is much better than I originally thought. Unrelated to the betterness, I'm really struck by how hopeless the tone is. Not the "up against impossible odds" stuff as much as a "not only is the mission hopeless, even if you succeed, we'll still lose" mentality. And yet it's interesting to read. Very weird.

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