hi rosa!
i'll join in the chorus of thank yous for that superb article! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] that was truly an amazing vivisection of frodo's last days, and i'm glad to see it poignantly laid down that way for all to see and appreciate. frodo's sacrifice has always been underrated in my opinion (i'm fascinated by sacrifices in lotr, i've a separate thread on it), if you do check out what aspects of lotr are the most talked about. the perspective from modern warfare and its psychology makes me think again about tolkien's innermost feelings about the dimensions of sacrifice and loss that perhaps his experience with war gave him. his astute but subtle portrayal of frodo as a suffering trauma victim, as this article has shown, has always made me think that tolkien himself suffered a great deal internally from the war.
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every man's life is a path to the truth -- hesse
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pity this busy monster,manunkind, not / -progress is a comfortable disease;/ your victim (death and life safely beyond) / plays with the bigness of his littleness
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