Oh, me neither, I have sort of just decided to roll with it, and accept the timelines as presented to me, but then that's how I am with the books too. I'm sure there are those out there who have made time maps and remember where everybody is a all times, but I don't think I have ever looked beyond the pov of each chapter, and when there's a hint of what the others have been up to I've thought "ah..." and promptly forgot about it.
I guess I'm kind of lazy... but then I've always just read it (again and again and again) and never really gone to the meta place of thinking, possibly because I have no real quarrels with the text. I got a bit inspired to read fics after the movies, but realised very quickly that those I read either explored themes I didn't care about, or thought resolved in the books, or they had fake archaic language that made me cringe, often compared with modern psychobabble and weird elvish.
As for the two days, I'm not sure. It makes sense for Faramir to have spent two days fighting for Osgilliath and returning to Minas Tirith after he sent Frodo and Sam through the sewers, I think, but as to how that compares with Gandalf and Pippin? Just trying to figure it out makes my brain hurt... Didn't Frodo and Sam leave Osgilliath during the TT and the last day of the battle of Helm's Deep? And the ride from Edoras to MT is, what, three days? And Gandalf spend at least one day after Helm's Deep to go to Isengard, and then another in Edoras at the party, so that's ...five days? Which *should* mean that Frodo and Sam leaving Faramir really happens while Gandalf and Pippin is riding towards them. (It's hurting, it's hurting, help!) But then again, is there a whole day in Minas Tirith before Faramir arrives? What with the beacons and all that, making it six days? Or is that all in the same day?
Anyhow, it doesn't seem to match up either way, if we're supposed to rely on the "movie chronology" of having intercut scenes happen at the same time. :-)
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I guess I'm kind of lazy... but then I've always just read it (again and again and again) and never really gone to the meta place of thinking, possibly because I have no real quarrels with the text. I got a bit inspired to read fics after the movies, but realised very quickly that those I read either explored themes I didn't care about, or thought resolved in the books, or they had fake archaic language that made me cringe, often compared with modern psychobabble and weird elvish.
As for the two days, I'm not sure. It makes sense for Faramir to have spent two days fighting for Osgilliath and returning to Minas Tirith after he sent Frodo and Sam through the sewers, I think, but as to how that compares with Gandalf and Pippin? Just trying to figure it out makes my brain hurt... Didn't Frodo and Sam leave Osgilliath during the TT and the last day of the battle of Helm's Deep? And the ride from Edoras to MT is, what, three days? And Gandalf spend at least one day after Helm's Deep to go to Isengard, and then another in Edoras at the party, so that's ...five days? Which *should* mean that Frodo and Sam leaving Faramir really happens while Gandalf and Pippin is riding towards them. (It's hurting, it's hurting, help!) But then again, is there a whole day in Minas Tirith before Faramir arrives? What with the beacons and all that, making it six days? Or is that all in the same day?
Anyhow, it doesn't seem to match up either way, if we're supposed to rely on the "movie chronology" of having intercut scenes happen at the same time. :-)
- Clara