A contribution because I've been away from CbC for far too long, albeit a small one because, well, Spanish essays don't write themselves. Regarding the oft-quotes star passage:
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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Symbolism and aesthetic quality aside, the actual structure of this sentence really helps to bring the point home. The light (or Light, as it may be) is the point of the sentence; just as it states that the Shadow is "a small and passing thing," Tolkien skims right over it here, from light to light.