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girlwithouthands:
whenever people ask me about the saddest book I’ve ever read, the ones that made me cry the most, they’re always surprised when I name The Lord of the Rings. and here’s why: throughout the books we have so many of the characters looking back at the hi(stories) before them, back to the ‘forgotten days’, the language echoing over and over, at Thorin’s death or Fëanor’s— these stories are so wrapped into the world, these stories can never be shrugged off.
but here’s the thing: Middle-Earth is dying, and the stories are dying with it. not in the way that they won’t be told, but in the way that the stories are just stories, now. Middle-Earth is dying, and it glisters as it dies, and in the embers you can see the echoes of great fires that burned long ago and you know those fires won’t burn again. at the end, Frodo sails and Gandalf sails and the Elves sail or fade away and you know this is the last story, the last song, Middle-Earth is dying and those great songs and tales are only songs and tales now
girlwithouthands:
whenever people ask me about the saddest book I’ve ever read, the ones that made me cry the most, they’re always surprised when I name The Lord of the Rings. and here’s why: throughout the books we have so many of the characters looking back at the hi(stories) before them, back to the ‘forgotten days’, the language echoing over and over, at Thorin’s death or Fëanor’s— these stories are so wrapped into the world, these stories can never be shrugged off.
but here’s the thing: Middle-Earth is dying, and the stories are dying with it. not in the way that they won’t be told, but in the way that the stories are just stories, now. Middle-Earth is dying, and it glisters as it dies, and in the embers you can see the echoes of great fires that burned long ago and you know those fires won’t burn again. at the end, Frodo sails and Gandalf sails and the Elves sail or fade away and you know this is the last story, the last song, Middle-Earth is dying and those great songs and tales are only songs and tales now