Fellowship of the Ring - Suspense

              ·         Discuss the way the author built suspense in the book.  Was it effective?

          I believe that the author did a excellent work on creating a final suspenseful atmosphere at the end of the first half of the book. By providing a scene where the main character, Frodo, escapes narrowly from the Nazgul. Then with a little outside help, the hobbit is saved leaving you feeling a sense of relief for the him. Though to further this feeling of suspense Tolkien has Frodo faint from his fatal wound he received from the Ringwraiths. The ending provides you with two points of suspense meet their end within seconds of one another.  

          Suspense built across the book by beginning on the road where Frodo, Sam and Pippin first run into one of the nine Nazgul and are forced to find refuge with a group of vagabond elves heading to The Gray Havens. Slowly they are stalked by five of the nine and are set back significantly on their journey. Finally the hobbits meet up with Merry and Strider and encounter the Nazgul at Weathertop, where the Witch King (leader of the Nazgul) stabs Frodo and leaves him deathly sick. Below I have presented the film version of Frdo's escape from te Nazgul wth the Elf Arwen.