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mark12_30 · 07-27-2006, 07:53 PM

Well, it was partly affection. But it was also to show the damage in Frodo, and the need for healing, and the whole response in the Shire.

That is rooted, I think, in the reception that soldiers got when returning to WW1 England from the front. "Roger, Pip-Pip, Old Boy, good to see you back home. Have your old job back." All very well-meaning, but for a world-war soldier, sometimes quite impossible. They were irrevocably (sometimes irreparably) changed.

07-27-2006, 07:53 PM	#2
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	Well, it was partly affection. But it was also to show the damage in Frodo, and the need for healing, and the whole response in the Shire. That is rooted, I think, in the reception that soldiers got when returning to WW1 England from the front. "Roger, Pip-Pip, Old Boy, good to see you back home. Have your old job back." All very well-meaning, but for a world-war soldier, sometimes quite impossible. They were irrevocably (sometimes irreparably) changed. __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.