I agree with you there, Squatter. By the time I got to the chapter of Mount Doom, I was so wound up in the Quest and in the lives of the Fellowship that I wept bitterly while reading the passage that you so eloquently quoted. It somehow seems like an unlikely denouement to such a climactic scene. But in that unlikely denouement lies one of the most beautiful depictions of true, honest, heart-felt love that I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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