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Jessica Jade · 04-21-2002, 09:49 AM

Child of 7th age- thanks for your explanation on Frodo's "falling asleep again" when he returns to the SHire. I never quite understood that! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Since Frodo is by far the most dynamic character in LOTR, he is most deeply affected by everything he went through. I agree that his perception of reality will never again be the same. When he talks about the "wounds that will never really heal," I believe that that is very true-the wounds never will heal, because they have become a part of him. Instead of trying to forget about them and trying to make them go away, he knows that it's a part of him and will accept it and live with it. And that's what makes him who he is now and he knows he's better because of it. I mean, i know that the hardest days of my life have made me who i am today, and i can't feel anything but gratitude for the experiences that have given me grief in past. Everyone gets nostalgic at times, wishing things could return to the way they used to be, but i'm sure Frodo wouln't trade in who he is at the end for who he was before the Ring. He HAS reached a higher level of moral and spiritual understanding that verges on the otherworldly. I think that Frodo is a true hero and that the outcome of events in LOTR is one of the reasons why the books are so beautiful.

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04-21-2002, 09:49 AM	#31
Jessica Jade Wight Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Tirion upon Túna, Atlanta Posts: 154	Child of 7th age- thanks for your explanation on Frodo's "falling asleep again" when he returns to the SHire. I never quite understood that! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Since Frodo is by far the most dynamic character in LOTR, he is most deeply affected by everything he went through. I agree that his perception of reality will never again be the same. When he talks about the "wounds that will never really heal," I believe that that is very true-the wounds never will heal, because they have become a part of him. Instead of trying to forget about them and trying to make them go away, he knows that it's a part of him and will accept it and live with it. And that's what makes him who he is now and he knows he's better because of it. I mean, i know that the hardest days of my life have made me who i am today, and i can't feel anything but gratitude for the experiences that have given me grief in past. Everyone gets nostalgic at times, wishing things could return to the way they used to be, but i'm sure Frodo wouln't trade in who he is at the end for who he was before the Ring. He HAS reached a higher level of moral and spiritual understanding that verges on the otherworldly. I think that Frodo is a true hero and that the outcome of events in LOTR is one of the reasons why the books are so beautiful. [ April 21, 2002: Message edited by: Jessica Jade ] __________________ http://www.cadential64.com The musicians had indeed laid bare the youngest, most innocent of our ideas of life, the indestructible yearning for the way things aren't and can never be. ~ Philip Roth, The Human Stain