I agree that the quest "claiming his life" refers to the quest encompassing his life. It becomes everything to Frodo, and thus he has no other life. Without the quest, he has no life. Being unable to live, he leaves Middle Earth. I wonder if this is much like a postwar syndrome. Men fight and die for years, win the War (I speak mainly of WWI, of which I find lots of imagery in LOTR) and then what is the world to them now? Some soldiers cannot live in the peacetime world. They sacrifice themselves so that the world may have peace, but they cannot bear it themselves. I remember Frodo somewhere saying or thinking that one must give up the right to live in peace so that the world may do so, or something like that. I can't recall where it occurs or what the wording is...
Cheers,
Lyta
P.S. If PJ kills Frodo, "somebody's gonna catch it hot!" as Samwise says. [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]
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“…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”
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