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Something I noticed.

There are two characters in The Silmarillion that I'm aware of who are described as having a darkness in them before they actually even did anything.

There's Fëanáro, and Galadriel said it.

And there's Maeglin, and Itarillë said it.

... The thing is, both of them were also motherless - Fëanáro having never really known his, and Maeglin having lost his (and his father) through an incredibly tragic event.

I wonder if that "darkness" that Galadriel and Itarillë saw was simply trauma and not a darkness of character, but they were simply to inexperienced to tell the difference. (Itarillë might've also had the same thing, considering what happened to Elenwë.)

When Frodo Sails West, Sam sneaks in his pack a little pouch of seeds from Bag End’s garden, so that Frodo will always have little piece of the Shire with him even if he had to leave forever.

When Sam sails at least, old and weary, he finds a little piece of home in this strange new land, exuberant and slightly overgrown but still the flowers he knows, sprawling around Frodo’s house. And he cries when he tastes the potatoes Frodo cooked because they taste just like the ones from his garden back in the Shire

Imagine, walking around in a Mandir or Gurudwara with your love, only to swirl around and find that he/they/she had been holding on to one end of your duppatta the whole time, as you were completing circles. He holds it up to remind you of the fourth circle (parikrama) and you find yourself smiling ear-to-ear. Life is mundane.

Ataphya.

Shershaah (2021) Dir. Vishnuvardhan