isengard

After the last action packed chapter (Helm's Deep), this is inevitably a quieter more contemplative chapter. But rather than having the main characters and the Rohirrim merely tidy up the battle field and then ride to Isengard to confront Saruman, Tolkien uses this chapter to explore and explain...

Interms of how much trees they cut down to fuel the warmachine and machinery advancement

As Obi-wan Kenobi would put it, he would find out "These are not the Hobbits you're looking for", and, what's more, would realize that he just revealed to Sauron that he was a traitor by trying to take the Ring for himself. While capturing them may have helped prevent the two from rousing the...

I know that he got out of Isengard in the end, but that was because of Radaghast sending the eagle and Saruman's plan backfiring. Gandalf outright admits that he couldn't have gotten out on his own. However, in the Hobbit, Gandalf went into Dol Guldor, where Sauron himself was lurking as the...

Many versions -- post your fave! I'll start with the original --posted here by Erestor Arcamen, the year it came out! 😀

These battles of the Fords of Isen were between the armies of Isengard and Rohan.

I’m reading LotR again, and I have a question: Supposing Frodo, Sam, and Gollum (let’s not forget him!) together failed to destroy the One Ring… Had Sauron gotten his way at the Morannon, and the West accepted the demands of Sauron delivered by the Mouth of Sauron… Do you suppose Sauron...

In Return of the King, Sauron freaks out and sends the eight remaining Nazgul all toward Mount Doom to try and prevent the Ring's destruction. Of course, for the side of the good guys, it was luckily too late for the Nazgul to get there in time. However, if Sauron truly thought Saruman had...

Isengard seems to go from lush peaceful gardens to ruined war machine in about two seconds flat. When Gandalf the Grey arrives at Isengard, it's full of greenery with no Orcs or Wildmen present. In fact the only resident seems to be Saruman, alone in a circle of life. It's hard to reconcile...

Hi everyone, I'm new. I come from Italy (Sicily precisally) and I'm translating this Tolkien's book. I wanted to ask you if you've ever red it before. If it's so, can you say me what do you think about it?

....says Treebeard. Where there's smoke, there's fire; where there's fire there must be wood; where there's wood, there must have been trees. He also says that Saruman is more interested in wheels and metal. How could he know that unless he had been close to Isengard? When he takes P&M to...

(I'm sure someone has already picked this up but I couldn't find it on a search, so here 'tis anyway...) In "The Spoiling of Isengard" scene on the FOTR DVD we see orcs throwing the butchered trees of Isengard into an underground furnace. At one point, only for a split second, you can make...

Saruman had orcs and goblins to build his army of Uruk-Hai. Did he gather them in the misty mountains? Or was it a present from Sauron, only this seems a little bit unlogic, becouse then all those orcs had to move unseen trough te lands of Gondor and Rohan... Please tell me...

Does anyone else think the music during the Ents' storming of Isengard is a waste? Not the nice choir boy nature theme played as they march toward Isengard but the 'action/suspense' music played as they destroy it. It becomes halfway decent as they start to break the dam but overall I call...

When I first saw the movie I was upset with the way Jackson handled Pippin and Treebeard. It seemed that Pippin wanted to go to Isengard to get Treebeard to see the destruction and hence get the ents to fight Saruman. However, after seeing it three more times, I am wondering... Did PJ intend...

anyone knows?