Cloud Buster
08-09-2003, 04:51 PM
I stayed up all night, and at about 5 AM this morning I finished reading the principal text of the LOTR trilogy for the first time. (By "principal text" I mean I've yet to read the appendecies, but I'll have those done today or tomorrow).
All I can say now is I'm not sure how to feel. I'm kind of in a daze. I felt that the end was very bittersweet, and I've no shame in saying I cried through the last few pages....especially the last moments between Sam and Frodo at the Grey Havens. Something about the dialogue there really, really got to me. I felt so much like Sam, like a child almost, not understanding and wanting to ask why -- but knowing I couldn't change it. That was just how things had to be. I still don't understand it fully.
It's like when you lose someone close to you, you know it had to be but wish it didn't....and somehow you know you'll never fully understand? That's how it made me feel.
It's also kinda sad that the journey I've taken with these characters is, at last, over.
If it sounds like I'm being overly dramatic, it's becasue I don't read books....I can never concentrate on them. Everyone told me that if I was gonna try to read a book, Tolkien was the wrong author to try....but I did it. Every last word of The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings, and it's a rewarding yet bittersweet ending for me, and for middle-earth.
All I can say now is I'm not sure how to feel. I'm kind of in a daze. I felt that the end was very bittersweet, and I've no shame in saying I cried through the last few pages....especially the last moments between Sam and Frodo at the Grey Havens. Something about the dialogue there really, really got to me. I felt so much like Sam, like a child almost, not understanding and wanting to ask why -- but knowing I couldn't change it. That was just how things had to be. I still don't understand it fully.
It's like when you lose someone close to you, you know it had to be but wish it didn't....and somehow you know you'll never fully understand? That's how it made me feel.
It's also kinda sad that the journey I've taken with these characters is, at last, over.
If it sounds like I'm being overly dramatic, it's becasue I don't read books....I can never concentrate on them. Everyone told me that if I was gonna try to read a book, Tolkien was the wrong author to try....but I did it. Every last word of The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings, and it's a rewarding yet bittersweet ending for me, and for middle-earth.