[Yavanna228]

I haven't read enough of Tolkien's works to formulate my own concrete opinions about Morgoth's return, but reading Iarwain's early threads make me tend to think that Morgoth will return at the 'end' of the world.
On a different, but maybe related note, in reply to Iarwain saying that he wished Tolkien would have definitively ended the history of ME, I wonder if Tolkien left it undone purposely, so that we could imagine the end, and in imagining it, make it more our own? Also, could Tolkien have left it undone to say something to the effect of "Here's what happened so far. What are you going to do with it?" Are we going to be on the side of 'good' or 'evil'? I think that if Tolkien hadn't left the history open-ended, it would be harder to be engaged in it because the characters would seem less sentient. It's like how a person in one of the threads said that once a book goes to press the characters are 'dead', but when the book is still being written, the characters are more 'alive.' When the history is still in the making, and not closed off, it seems more alive to us.
I'm probably way off, but those are my thoughts. Hope it's understandable and that I didn't completely defeat the purpose of the thread. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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