I cannot thank you enough for posting that incredible article.It answered many questions i had. The ending to LOTR could not have been better. It was, for me, a heart-wrenchingly sad ending, because of the sacrifice and how things just couln't be the way they used to be anymore, all because of the evil of the Ring. The affects of evil were chilling, yet incredibly sad...but if Frodo did become normal again after his ordeal, the ending WouLD, indeed have seemed cheesy and false and too "happily ever after." Reading the last chapter made me want to weep for innocense and "paradise" lost.
[ March 20, 2002: Message edited by: Jessica Jade ]
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