A Happy Ending... or is it?

[drigel]

There may be more than you think, Child! I think the author did exactly what he set out to do. Not as an intentional marketing ploy to make you automatically buy upcoming products. But the intention of causing the reader to feel that he/she has discovered something wonderous beyond words, beyond earthly physics, beyond human control. Yet in the discovery is the realization that what has been found must be lost. In that ending (of LOTR) was another chapter of loss that was, and will continue to be.

Was the Ringbearer able to put the pieces of his life back together on Tol Eressa, or was there only more pain?

There is no pain in paradise, once it was removed from the circles of the world.

You have your maps and characters and beastiary. Lives lived and wars won and lost. It all adds up for a good read. But that feeling to me is the pure craft of genious. Long live that feeling!

To be truthful, at the end of the book, I find myself grieving for a world, for a past, that never even existed.

awsome, quite eucatastrophical