But, despite all this and a mighty pitched battle with Mordor's gruesome and violent soldier-creatures, there is a strange paucity of plot complication, an absence of anything unfolding, all the more disconcerting because of the clotted and indigestible mythic back story that we have to wade through before anything happens at all.
Margaret was forced to flee the DR Congo due to violent soldier attacks on her village, during which she was separated from her mother, uncle, and the rest of her family.
The previous protests have been violent, with soldiers rampaging through the capital and provincial cities earlier in April, looting and burning offices of Mr. Compaoré's ruling party, and even co-opting his elite presidential guard.
While his body of work includes poetry, nonfiction and the occasional cheerful picture book for children, its standout books offer themes aimed at young-adult readers: stories of teenagers in violent gangs, soldiers headed to Iraq and juvenile offenders imprisoned for their crimes.
At least nine people were killed and more than a dozen wounded as a five-day general strike turned violent and soldiers opened fire on protests by high school students over the suspension of year-end exams because teachers had joined the strike, the police and witnesses said.
Probably the only people who can reliably be predicted to become violent are soldiers sent to war.
After a game of cards turns violent, another soldier's PTSD, movingly portrayed by Matthew Rees, has tragic consequences.
Assassinations, violent protests and soldiers fighting in faraway places became part of our daily lives.
There were reports Friday of violent clashes with soldiers or police officers at protests in Alexandria and elsewhere.
They formed a violent offshoot named Soldiers of Allah, whose members were mostly Arabs dispatched from Spain to fight in Afghanistan and Bosnia.
