[SlickWillard]

For the record.

[jwfiv]

Thank you. Very cool to read this again, after 33 years. Wow.

[Dialup Llama]

Somehow I kinda knew that LOTR was not a happy story.

I dig chicks who speak Elvish.

[CapandBall]

bump - you LOTR junkie!

[Gordian Blade]

Well, Slick, I don't call this a tragedy. It is simply the bittersweet end of life that we all must face. We know that Aragorn was a mortal man and Arwen chose to become mortal, and we are supposed to think that we are actually reading a forgotten history of long ago; so JRRT is simply filling us in on how their lives ended. "They lived happily ever after to the end of their days."

[Pearls Before Swine]

I was wondering if this ending will find its way into episode 3, due two Christmases hence. I doubt it--I think they'll end with Frodo and Gandalf on the ship to the West--maybe with a big bright glow on the horizon. What do you think?

[dell Arpa]

Do not read this if you prefer to believe that The Lord of the Rings has a happy ending. It doesn't. You have been warned.

"In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory, Farewell!"

Doesn't sound so unhappy to me.

[Swordmaker]

Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory, Farewell!

Says it all.

[ecurbh]

pinging the ringers!

[ecurbh]

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[Marianne]

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