But also happy Froday so we will have my fave letter 246 featuring our fave hobbit. :)

"Frodo had done what he could and spent himself completely (as an instrument of Providence) and had produced a situation in which the object of his quest could be achieved. HIs humility (with which he began) and his sufferings were justly rewarded by the highest ( Read more... )

Sorry that it is belated but i was thinking about TOlkien Reading Day/Gondorian New Year the whole day on Froday!

Here's my entry from his Letters:

My fave letter!

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I need a nice image to calm me down first...


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The actual letter to the real Sam Gamgee: ;)
"Dear Mr. Gamgee ( Read more... )

“I do not think that Frodo was a moral failure. At the last moment the pressure of the Ring would reach its maximum-impossible, I should have said, for any one to resist, certainly after long possession, months of increasing torment, and when starved and exhausted. Frodo had done what he could and spent himself completely (as an instrument of ( Read more... )

"'Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured', said Gandalf--not in Middle-earth. Frodo was sent or allowed to pass over Sea to heal him--if that could be done, before he died. He would have eventually to 'pass away' : no mortal could, or can, abide for ever on earth, or within Time. So he went both to a purgatory and to a reward, ( Read more... )

Your weekly Tolkien Day Quote:

"Sam is meant to be lovable and laughable. Some readers he irritates and even infuriates. I can well understand it. All hobbits at times affect me in the same way, though I remain very fond of them. But Sam can be very 'trying'. He is a more representative hobbit than any others that we have to see much of; and ( Read more... )

"Frodo deserved all honour because he spent every drop of his power of will and body, and that was just sufficient to bring him to the destined point, and no further. Few others, possibly no others of his time, would have got so far. The Other Power then took over: the Writer of the Story (by which I do not mean myself), 'that one ever-present ( Read more... )

From Letter 246 ♥ : 0=)

"We only meet exceptional hobbits in close companionship--those who had a grace or gift: a vision of beauty, and a reverence for things nobler than themselves, at war with their rustic self-satisfaction." Just that sentence ( Read more... )

Quote from my favorite letter:

"Frodo had become a considerable person, but of a special kind: in spiritual enlargement rather than in increase of physical or mental power; his will was much stronger than it had been, but so far it had been exercised in resisting not using the Ring and with the object of destroying it. He needed time, much time, ( Read more... )