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Originally Posted by Encaitare
The tale of the Ring's existence is over when it is destroyed, but the plot is not over. Its effects are still evident and the aftermath of the main plot remains to be told.
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True Encaitare, in a way. The plot of the ring is over, but there is a new piece of tale that erases/rewrites the entire structure of the tale. It begins a completely different story.
So, if it seems that Tolkien's intent was to write a melancholy story, about the "end of all things" (frodo to sam), and to portray "a red day, a sword day, ere the sun sets!" then he did quite what he set out to do. Doesn't his purpose reflect in the Silm, where the quests and actions of the Elves are met with disaster and death, unleashing terrible sorrow? Perhaps Tolkien suffered from depression....
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