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which has got to be one of the most interesting yet forboding things I've ever read by Tolkien.
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Indeed Numenorean, it chilled me almost. When an epic story such as LOTR comes to a close, you don't want to read(or write) anything after because at the brink of being better, it can only be worse. You really are given the secure idea that the evil of Melkor(Morgoth) has finally been washed away, but then you discovered that it had poisoned so many hearts that you'd never noticed before. It's a painfully realistic unfinished sequel, yet one of the most facinating things I ever read. Middle-Earth's history finally coming to a close, and the beginning of our depressing modern world begins.