[ElanorGamgee]

The end of The Return of the King broke my heart. I cried a little (as I often do at the end of a series or book that I really like when no one can see me). The appendix made me sad too, because I had to read about the Fellowship going their separate ways and then dying off or leaving Middle-earth. I think the deaths that bothered me the most were of Merry and Pippin, not only because they seem so young in the book and it's hard to imagine them ever aging, but also because they die and are buried in Middle-earth, far from Frodo, Sam, and Bilbo.