Article on crossing rivers in LotR

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Found this piece on a blog I follow looking at how the Lord of the Rings ends up structured around crossing rivers, with each representing a different step in the story - and how much that was deliberate and how much just evolved and all that. Thought I'd pop it here for my fellow LotR fans

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Crossing places

© C A Lovegrove River fords are hugely symbolic as crossing places. Think of Caesar crossing the Rubicon, the Israelites crossing the Red Sea out of Egypt or equally the River Jordan into the Promi…
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