High price of victory/LOTR

Amy Z aiz24 at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 10 18:18:06 UTC 2001


CMC wrote on the main list:

>I think, as in LOTR, that the HP narrative will end with the defeat 
>of evil, but it will come at an extremely high price. 

I know we're probably supposed to read LOTR this way, but I really 
don't.  Frodo's finger and Lothlorien (which was dying anyway, IIRC?) 
aren't that big a price in my book.  The only person who dies who 
really has my heart is Gollum, and his life is such a misery that 
it's almost a relief when he dies.  I do feel deeply for Frodo, but 
for the burden of sadness that he can't shake, not because he goes to 
the Grey Havens.  In fact, he does shake it by leaving Middle Earth.

JRRT is the better writer, IMO *ducks*, but I don't love his 
characters the way I love so many of JKR's.  I suppose it is that 
they are so much in the heroic mode, or else, like Sam, they are so 
exasperatingly folksy that I want to lock them in a Christmastime 
Shoppe `til they begin to starve and have to survive by nibbling all 
the wooden duck calendars.  Frodo and Gollum are the only ones I 
really *love.*

Amy






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