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Banazîr · 05-26-2002, 07:58 PM

"forgot to add that since Frodo lists those four items-- knife, sting, tooth (GOllum's attack at Orodruin) and the long burden, I think Frodo counts the event as a wound whether or not he is sick on just the anniversary of it. I suspect that it burdens him daily, not jsjt once a year

Actually you are completly right! Frodo saw himself as a broken failure daily, and of course he doesn't feel as a broken failure because he was stabbed at weathertop, nor because he was stung by Shelob, but because he didn't cast the ring into the fire by a voluntary act, using the last strength left to him(I believe he was totally out of that at this moment and that's where he needed some).
"he was tempted to regret its destruction, and still to desire it"(from the Letters)

And to me, that is what is the most devastating; he feels "guilty" for what he have done when he shouldn't, and couldn't help himself but sometimes desiring it(like it is said in the letters of JRRT)after the destruction.
poor Frodo

[ May 26, 2002: Message edited by: Banazîr ]

05-26-2002, 07:58 PM	#31
Banazîr Pile O'Bones Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Montreal, Quebec Posts: 19	"forgot to add that since Frodo lists those four items-- knife, sting, tooth (GOllum's attack at Orodruin) and the long burden, I think Frodo counts the event as a wound whether or not he is sick on just the anniversary of it. I suspect that it burdens him daily, not jsjt once a year Actually you are completly right! Frodo saw himself as a broken failure daily, and of course he doesn't feel as a broken failure because he was stabbed at weathertop, nor because he was stung by Shelob, but because he didn't cast the ring into the fire by a voluntary act, using the last strength left to him(I believe he was totally out of that at this moment and that's where he needed some). "he was tempted to regret its destruction, and still to desire it"(from the Letters) And to me, that is what is the most devastating; he feels "guilty" for what he have done when he shouldn't, and couldn't help himself but sometimes desiring it(like it is said in the letters of JRRT)after the destruction. poor Frodo [ May 26, 2002: Message edited by: Banazîr ] __________________ "Baruk khâzad! Khazâd ai ménu!" "Axes of the dwarves! The Dwarves are upon you!"