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[angelchicken]

Loved it. Loved. It. Samwise is the best character ever in the history of fandom that isn't a sex-god (former) ad exec or a snarkey peroxided vampire embodiment of sex.

I want - ne, ne need - a Sam icon. And maybe an Aragorn one. And Gandolf, Gimli and Legolas, just to round out the group. And Pippen and Merry, because they are so in love. So in love.

One question, though. Why did Frodo get on the boat to the dead (yes?) at the end? Was it because he was bored being in the Shire and needed adventure? Was it because of how the ring effected him? Because Sam went off and got married leaving Frodo bereft and unable to love again? Why!?! I need to know.

Really, it was wonderful.














So, it isn't quite over yet. We did the family party, and the black tie dinner and the lunch at the club and the Christmas day pre-lunch party and the dinner with the cousins and then came home and watched The Two Towers. We didn't really get to presents until tonight, and even that was mostly the presents I got my family because I couldn't wait any more. I urned them all CD's which they seemed happy with, and David loved the pron and my mom loved the For Better or for Worse and Jenbo loved the Crosswords puzzle stuff and they loved the mini dictionaries and the It (they all got It because I have had three copies of it for years and I wanted them out of my apartment. So, present.

Thus far I have gotten face tint (like a liquid blush. Love it) and a dictionary that I can attach to a book to look up words and I got a Vera Bradley bag from my Aunt & Uncle and glittery body lotion. All in all, not so bad. Jenny is going to get me a subscription to Maxim and maybe Season one or two of Angel and I think my mom got me Season five of Buffy (mmmmmm, seasonfivebuffy) and some flour sack cloths and a red ovin mitt from William Sonoma. All in all, it's good.

I think tomorrow my mom is taking me to DSW. Thank you Santa!

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[dreago.livejournal.com]

Frodo needed to leave because well, in the book, he's completely changed by the experience. Everyone kinda shuns him because his adventure is scary and traumatic, while people flock to Merry and Pippin. They don't understand Frodo's pacifist philosophy either. Frodo never gets over the pain of Weathertop. Tolkein writes that towards the end, at Mt. Doom, Frodo is becomes a being full of power and light. So, let's see, you've been all powerful, you've become a being that is described as angelic and now you're a spiritual introspective person more comfortable with Elves than loud, lusty hobbitts. You feel bad that you're faithful companion is torn between his loyalty to you and his love for his life and his new wife. You yearn for some peace. You just want to rest and the Shire just doesn't "fit" anymore.

Like Moses and Martin Luther King, they have been on top the mountain and looked at the Promised Land, but they could not go in. Saviours save the world, but they rarely enjoy it afterwards.

Bilbo and Frodo got a place on the boat because they were ring bearers. Frodo suggests that one day Sam may get a boat ride because he also carried the ring for a bit. I don't remember if Sam did go later on. You might want to ask queenofdenile as she just finished reading the book. Legolas goes of course, because a)he's an elf and all elves were supposed to have left a long time ago anyways-tolkeing once hinted that the whole ring mess was the elves fault anyways, for stubbornly refusing to leave earth to the humans when God asked them to come away to the West thousands of years prior- b)Once Elves hear the music of the ocean,they go kinda nuts. They can only think about leaving. WHen Legolas, Aragorn and Gimli overtook the ships, he heard a seagull and that activated his desire for the sea. Tolkein writes in the appendix that Gimli gets a place on the boat because Gimli had become an Elf friend and had fallen madly in love with Galadriel. Sam is declared mayor of the Shire and he, the fat hobbitt enjoys his many, many children and his duties as mayor (giving speeches and presiding over banquets). Pippin is Thain of the Shire (Sheriff) and Merry rides with King Aragorn often. Aragorn forbids men to enter the Shire, so that the hobbitts are never bothered again and they live happily ever after...now they are known as leprachauns.

Hee. I made that last part up. Everyone knows there are no such things as Leprachuans. Tolkein whimself as scornful of fairies.