There is little I can add to this highly deserved praise, Mechtild. The look on Frodo’s face and the setting you chose are complete. You have a great eye for beauty and emotion. And your technical skills are not to be sneezed :D
The chapter you quoted from ‘Many Partings’ is very sad indeed. Many of us have experienced not being recognised by old loved-ones. This chapter always makes me tear up. Even more so, now that you have brought to the fore Frodo’s weeping scene in ‘The Stairs of Cirith Ungo’l.
Thank you also for pointing out the following:
I think writing the Red Book, although he only began it as a commission for Bilbo, helped him begin to see the part that he had played. In Aman, I have believed, he would come to see it better still.
I have never looked at the writing of the book as therapeutic, until now.
I suppose if he were totally despondent, he wouldn't have bothered; he would just have waited until death and/or madness took him.
This has made it a little easier for me to accept that he could not stay in the Shire.
I was quite overcome by jan-u-wine’s 'Aiya Earendil'
…He sleeps and wakes and sleeps again and oft-times knows me not,…
The words touched me deeply. Again because I have experienced this in my own life. Thank you jan-u-wine I enjoy your poetry very much.
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Date: 2006-05-17 09:55 am (UTC)There is little I can add to this highly deserved praise, Mechtild. The look on Frodo’s face and the setting you chose are complete. You have a great eye for beauty and emotion. And your technical skills are not to be sneezed :D
The chapter you quoted from ‘Many Partings’ is very sad indeed. Many of us have experienced not being recognised by old loved-ones. This chapter always makes me tear up. Even more so, now that you have brought to the fore Frodo’s weeping scene in ‘The Stairs of Cirith Ungo’l.
Thank you also for pointing out the following:
I think writing the Red Book, although he only began it as a commission for Bilbo, helped him begin to see the part that he had played. In Aman, I have believed, he would come to see it better still.
I have never looked at the writing of the book as therapeutic, until now.
I suppose if he were totally despondent, he wouldn't have bothered; he would just have waited until death and/or madness took him.
This has made it a little easier for me to accept that he could not stay in the Shire.
I was quite overcome by jan-u-wine’s 'Aiya Earendil'
…He sleeps and wakes and sleeps again
and oft-times knows me not,…
The words touched me deeply. Again because I have experienced this in my own life. Thank you jan-u-wine I enjoy your poetry very much.