Tolkien Knew Exactly What Loss And Despair Was And Felt It So Deeply - Tumblr Posts
3 years ago
none of you warned me that LOTR was this sad, i was unprepared, and now you’ve left me weeping, and it’s your fault
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tolkien knew exactly what loss and despair was and felt it so deeply
and he still understood hope and courage and it’s beautiful
that someone so scarred
so traumatized
so hurt
could still make such an effort or put beauty and hope into their life
but then to make frodo sail into the west
and have all the elves and gandalf leave as well
to represent the past fading into history and the end of an era
a people
a society
as the natural order of things
just breaks
my heart