What was the saddest?

[Arathiriel]

I think one of the saddest parts to me in the entire trilogy is the part just after the Ring has been destroyed as Frodo sounds so weary with hopelesness:

'Maybe not, Sam,' said Frodo; 'but it's like things are in the world. Hope fails. An end comes. We have only a little time to wait now. We are lost in ruin and downfall, and there is no escape.'

That part is just so sad because you can hear the utter desolation Frodo feels! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]