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[iwilltakeyouon]

I reread Lord of the Rings in the summer and have since been quite fascinated with Frodo and his transformation by the Ring. Tolkien's depiction of Frodo's inability to find solace in the Shire years after the destruction of the Ring is to me extraordinarily moving. I read in one of Tolkien's letters that Frodo is haunted by his failure at Mount

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[lonevettar]

Farther up, and further in.

[iwilltakeyouon]

What what?

[lonevettar]

Well, think about it. Tolkien's true west, the isle of Tol Eressea and the forbidden shores of Valinor, is similar to Lewis's true Narnia. Both are places normally unreachable by normal man, both a sort of "real" that is near to God that require some form of death to get at, and both are places of astounding peace after great struggle.

Frodo's finding of peace is wonderful, but me, I'm more of a Gamgee, I guess. I'm gonna have me a girl and have a few hundred kids.

[fuegootts]

I was always drawn to this storyline. Frodo coming home, but not really finding home. Home will never be home to him again because he was so changed by his journey. It would be impossible for it to be the same because he is different. The writers of the film did such a good job in keeping true to the spirit of Tolkien. For example, they gave Gandalf the line "the grey rain-curtain turne dall to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise." It is my favorite moment in that film, and this is easily my favourite bit of Tolkein prose.