Thank you, Bagma. I don't remember him described as weeping elsewhere, either. I think it was too much for him, the gloom and horror of it: seeing those soldiers emerge endlessly, bound straight for the land where his newest host/rescuer/friend was sure to have to meet them in battle and be crushed. And then to think of all the others who would be killed, in concentric waves of mental associations. And what does he say? He's too late, he should not have tarried. He takes a portion of the responsibility for the debacle he envisions. Yet he goes on, because "it" goes on -- the onslaught of the enemy.
Tolkien said, Frodo wept, "and still the host of Morgul crossed the bridge." I think that's a brilliant bit of writing, as if to say, we may be stricken and weeping but the hard events that caused us to do so are not affected; they roll right over us and everyone else who falls across their paths.
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Date: 2006-05-15 09:11 pm (UTC)Tolkien said, Frodo wept, "and still the host of Morgul crossed the bridge." I think that's a brilliant bit of writing, as if to say, we may be stricken and weeping but the hard events that caused us to do so are not affected; they roll right over us and everyone else who falls across their paths.