Speaking of thinking ahead...I am the idiot who wondered about Gollum. Not even considering the fact that he hay be present at the culmination of the mission, I checked the index and went to that page...yeah, I guess you know the rest. I ruined the ENTIRE ending for myself. *beats head on computer* I am STILL mad abotu that.
But anyway, where Tolkien fooled me. I would have to say that he fooled me on:
the issue of Gandalf being dead
the hobbit conspiracy (Sam was spying!!??!!)
Boromir dying
Merry and Pippin swearing fealty
Eowyn being Dernhelm (for a while - figured it out halfway to Minas Tirith)
(on Frodo's 'death': I knew he did someting heroic, so figured there would be some kind of a miracle...however I did comtemplate the idea of Sam completing the Quest, but wondered then why he wasn't getting any glory. )
Pippin being dead
Merry, Faramir and Eowyn alive or not
And especially the end, Frodo claiming the Ring and all that.
Also the very end, when Frodo had to sail away.
Then I read the Tale of Years, and read about Sam going to Valinor, and Merry and Pippin dying, and cried some more...
So yeah, basically the whole book I was surprised.
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when Frodo put on the Ring for the last time, I thought for one awful nanosecond that Sam would be faced with the choice of letting Frodo go mad or *gasp* pushing him over the edge.
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Oh. My. Gosh. I would have felt so bad for Sam........what would he have done facing that choice, I wonder?
Oh, man, that is deep.