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03-14-2004, 06:50 PM | #1 |
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Saddest Moment In Tolkien
What do you lot think is the saddest moment in Tolkien's Work?
I would say that either the death of Theoden or the descent into evil of Gollum would be the saddest in my opinion.
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A version of your second suggestion:
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03-15-2004, 01:11 AM | #3 |
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When Treebeard sees that many of his forest trees near Isengard have been cut down and burned.
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03-15-2004, 01:35 AM | #4 |
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The saddest moment for me is when Sam comes home and says "I'm back"
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03-15-2004, 01:37 AM | #5 |
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cause it's over?
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03-15-2004, 02:07 AM | #6 |
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yeah
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03-15-2004, 02:09 AM | #7 |
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You poor baby!
Oh yes...when the party tree gets cut down. Those tree bits really get me!
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03-15-2004, 02:19 AM | #8 |
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For me it is definitely when Frodo is finally back home in Bag End, and he realises that he can never go back to his life before the ring came to him. Oh, and the fact that Gollum never gets redeemed.
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"It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them." That is so beautiful, just thinking about it sometimes brings tears to my eyes. *sniffle*
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03-15-2004, 04:27 AM | #11 |
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I know this is predictable… but the saddest moment for me is Gandalf's 'death' Every time I read it or watch it I cry, evne though I know full well he's not *really* dead…
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That is a really sad part Mrs. Maggot, it's very moving. The sad part is you know the Fellowship thinks he's dead, and he was such a good friend to all of them in different ways, especially Frodo, Aragorn, and Legolas.
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03-15-2004, 06:35 AM | #13 |
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The saddest moment in all of JRR Tolkien's work that I have read for me is in the Fall of Gondolin, when Echtilion (Sp?) takes Gothmog down in the fountain. I freakin cried, for Christ's sake. The whole Fall is so well written and sad, I guess its just the whole mood of the thing. Glorfindel taking the plunge with the Balrog is a sad one too, though. That damn Morgoth!
If you mean in Lord of the Rings alone, I would have to go with the death of Theoden. I like that guy, its too bad he died. On the lighter side, though, the funniest part is when Helm Hammerhand smites that fat dude outside of Edoras for allowing his pride to grow with his belly...heh heh..
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But in all Tolkien works the first scene that comes to my mind as the saddest is: Quote:
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06-12-2005, 01:21 PM | #15 |
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I think the saddest moment would have to be when The hobbits have to leae Aragorn in Gondor at thhe end of the ROTK.
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06-13-2005, 12:28 PM | #16 |
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Oh I just remembered a very sad moment in LotR. Where Sam and Frodo are already in Mordor and Sam whatches over the sleepng Frodo. He looks up and sees one star shinging in the sky and he gets new hope for the world, even though they were sure to fail. The way Tolkien wrote it was just lovely. Very striking piece.
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06-16-2005, 07:26 AM | #17 |
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That's easy, the part that always makes me cry (the book, not the movie) is of course the end of things....when Frodo, Gandalf, & the last of the elves sails away and the three (3) companions travel home together.....breaks my heart….I’m only slightly ever consoled by the idea that Sam left to join him at the end of his days…..Tolkien does a good job of suggesting it, at least. Also, when Aragorn takes death and leaves the Queen to wander back to that mound in the forest to die…..Major Gut Wretch…..
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06-17-2005, 03:23 PM | #18 |
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Ah yes. One forgets a lot of the things - a sign that I've read the book way too long ago. The way Arwen dies has quite a way of touching the heart. I really felt sorry for her.
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03-15-2004, 10:28 AM | #19 |
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This is a hard one. I'd say Beren's death. Or when Maglor and Maedhros have finally regained the Silmarils, only to discover how vain it was. Or when Túrin killed Beleg. Or the Aegnor/Andreth love story. Or ...
There are just too many to choose from. In LotR I think it must be the death of Boromir.
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03-15-2004, 02:37 PM | #20 |
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In LOTR's it would have to be when it ended. The very last sentence had me in floods. I just didn't want it to end.
Of course there is also the death of Smaug in The Hobbit - I loved that dragon!
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