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Enedhil · 01-12-2002, 04:50 PM

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i've not read through all the replies so beg my pardon if i repeat anything.

i've not finished reading the books yet - i'm a fledging! - so i don't know much about them yet. But as far as i can see,the friendship/love, at least between frodo and sam, is amazing. how loyal is sam and how many friendships can you say are even a tiny bit like that! It's beautiful and touching the way Tolkien has made this. Sam and Frodo are to an extent, i think, soul-mates...and you do realise that 'soul mate' doesnt just mean a person who is your lover! As a subject that interests me, i have found out that a soul mate can also be someone who is a member of your family, someone who helps you through a hellish bit in your life (you may never see again after that), a [close] friend, even your boss(???)! like a guardian angel, I guess in some ways. 'soul mate', like 'love' is a word/term that we all use too loosely. It has more meanings that we probably ever find out during our life-time... I think Tolkien manages to put it on so many levels throughout the whole story, and it may be no wonder that some of it goes over our heads!
Hopefully i haven't waffled too much, as i tend to do a lot. I guess I'm not what you could call articulate!

01-12-2002, 04:50 PM	#11
Enedhil Wight Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Scotland Posts: 102	[img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] i've not read through all the replies so beg my pardon if i repeat anything. i've not finished reading the books yet - i'm a fledging! - so i don't know much about them yet. But as far as i can see,the friendship/love, at least between frodo and sam, is amazing. how loyal is sam and how many friendships can you say are even a tiny bit like that! It's beautiful and touching the way Tolkien has made this. Sam and Frodo are to an extent, i think, soul-mates...and you do realise that 'soul mate' doesnt just mean a person who is your lover! As a subject that interests me, i have found out that a soul mate can also be someone who is a member of your family, someone who helps you through a hellish bit in your life (you may never see again after that), a [close] friend, even your boss(???)! like a guardian angel, I guess in some ways. 'soul mate', like 'love' is a word/term that we all use too loosely. It has more meanings that we probably ever find out during our life-time... I think Tolkien manages to put it on so many levels throughout the whole story, and it may be no wonder that some of it goes over our heads! Hopefully i haven't waffled too much, as i tend to do a lot. I guess I'm not what you could call articulate! __________________ Meanwhile these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love. And the greatest of these is Love.