The Return Of The King

[Buddah]

the return of the king was the best! only one thing, wat happened to their horses at the black gates?

[Chokolate Thunda]

  i dunno, not all the people got picked up by eagles did they?  maybe they all herded them back to minas tirith?

[¤ Lor'ie`a¤]

the rotk is my fave book, i borrowed it from a friend last year, and i have read it too many times to count... dont tell her i still have it , i think she might have forgot!  I love the Grey Havens part, its so sad

[super legolas]

i actually like the ttt more than rotk, i find that rotk drivels on about nowt.

[Gomaithol]

the most annoying things about ROTK are that just by the title, if you've been paying attention by reading the two precessors, you can tell what's going to happen. And second is that the action all happens in book 5 and the first four chapters in book 6, with the chapters after just showing how the coronation went, how the fellowship spilt and how the hobbits woke up the shire in the end, even if the Grey Havens chapter does have a meaning to it, after Mt. Doom it just seems to slow right down.

[elbereth]

well....yeah...but isn't that enough....but you still have the scouring of the shire and the goodbyes at the Grey Havens....which are just heart wrenching...I cried like a baby when I read that part...and I still cry no matter how many times I read it....but you can't have action all the time...you have to have the other parts of the stories as well...

[GG]

Didn't you ever wonder in the end, though all the evil creations of Sauron were apparently instantly vanquished in the films, what about in the REAL story, the book story?

Did they still "vanish" or did they just admit defeat and head home to wherever it is Easterlings and orcs and trolls come from (them not really being magical entities but flesh and blood beings with newly-found free will who just happened to have been on the wrong side of the fight of good and evil)

Yeah..i know, a bit of a jab at Tolkien's interpretation of the nature of good and evil, but it still makes me wonder.

[Gomaithol]

well, that can go on the birthday wish list then:

"The Annotated Lord of the Rings"

[Chokolate Thunda]

yeah, but i love how tolkien wrote it, how he spent so much time on this world, creating characters, places, and all of them almost seem as if they could have existed.

[Lady Arwen]

Now that I come to think of it,I almost wish they would disappear altogether...it would be all too sad for them to suddenly be free from Sauron's will but at the same time to know the evil they've done.That would mean eternal punishment,and for creatures that have just returned to good,it would be too much,I think.
This is undoubtedly my favourite book. I don't think the ending is anticlimactic at all,it's just sad and full of images of death that are barely compensated by the images of life. In my opinion,it couldn't have ended differently,since the ring kills every one of its bearers-therefore,Frodo had to go.He was no longer of this world,which was to be left with only its everyday magic of living and of natural happiness...just like Sam.

[elbereth]

no one said that they returned to good...or whatever...just because they suddenly had free will doesn't mean that they all became these happy go lucky beings....

doesn't it say somewhere that Aragorn still had to battle and fight to go ahead and disband Sauron's remnent....the Easterlings and the Southrons probalby had a lot to lose...and I would imagine that some of the orcs and trolls headed that way...

keep in mind in the FotR when in Bree that southron man who looked orcish to Frodo...well...to me that kind of explains a lot of things....

although I might be assuming.....

[Lady Arwen]

In fact,I don't think that it is possible for them to suddenly return to good,since the Uruk-hai were essentially created in and for bad. Maybe it's reasonable to think that Aragorn fought them off (or what was left of them), and that it was now an easy task for him,as they were not supported by the evil power of Sauron anymore.

[Chokolate Thunda]

Maybe they were destroyed, like in the Prologue Part of FotR.....when Sauron was destroyed, they basically crumbled...

[Martial_monk]

Once Sauron had defeated, In the Forth Age Elesser took back Minis Morgal and flushed out the remaining evil from Gondor.

[Gomaithol]

and since the hobbits revolted against saruman no-nes gone that far east in ages, i think.

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