hawkaye:

_{“I wouldn’t kill him, because he looked as frightened as I was. I looked at him… and I saw myself.”}

girlwithouthands:

girlwithouthands:

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

rereading these passages between the two of them & I think The Lord of the Rings is as much a failed love story as it is a work of epic fantasy. Frodo going into dawn and Sam going into evening, into darkness (the light of the world leaves him, and Frodo goes with it). right before this passage Frodo makes a remark— “you cannot be always torn in two.you will have to be one and whole for many years” — and it’s… it’s just devastatingly wrong, bitterly wrong. Frodo leaving didn’t stop that. all it meant was Sam would stare longer and longer into the west, waiting to see him again.  

aowyn:

LOTR GIFS 2/? - THE GREY HAVENS

Then Frodo kissed Merry and Pippin, and last of all Sam, and went aboard; and the sails were drawn up, and the wind blew, and slowly the ship slipped away down the long grey firth; and the light of the glass of Galadriel that Frodo bore glimmered and was lost. And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.