When the Hobbits return to the Shire and nobody gives them any credit for what they've done (surely news must have travelled back by then) always seemed a bit sad to me. It's reminicent of American soldiers coming back from Vietnam and being ignored or abused.
Frodo leaving ME and not benefiting from all the good work he had done also semmed a bit sad.
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...and his eye, piercing all shadows, looked across the plain to the door that he had made;and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash.
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