listening pleasure

Samwise Gamgee witnessed a battle in the two towers, in the chapter where he's cooking rabbits that gollum caught.

anyway, I am listening to the two towers on my ipod, this is like the third time i'm listening to it, i like these books and listening to them is relaxing and entertaining...

in my third or whatever time listening, i picked up on a new detail during this battle scene. it kind of gives a glimpse of what j.r.r. tolkien thought of war & soldiers. a man had just died, and...

"it was Sam's first view of a battle of men against men, and he did not like it much. he was glad he could not see the dead man's face. he wondered what the man's name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home..."

hmmmm... apparently unfounded, dishonest & unnecessary wars are not new... this book was first copyrighted in 1954.