Max Nierenberg’s Reviews > The Return of the King > Status Update

Slow buildup chapters, military getting ready for war and psychological battles within certain characters, merry told to stay but defies orders, pippen feeling gloomy doomy. Aragorn off to path of the dead - him and theodon have 2 diff leadership styles

Just read 43 pages today, Got too chapter 3, pippen has had a change of character, prideful, serves under leadership of boromirs father - we see how his death affected him, chapter 2 shows Aragorn leadership style and the decision to take the path of the dead as a shortcut running into the oathbreakers, shows the 2 diff leadership styles between Theoden and Aragorn