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Pervinca Took · 03-17-2014, 07:56 AM

LOTRelf, I think it was the illness the March after that one when Tolkien said he finally decided to sail West. The one where Sam was home, but Elanor was being/about to be born, and Frodo managed "with a great effort" to hide his illness.

Fully agree about different kinds of strength. Just because Frodo doesn't get the chance to fight a giant spider, it doesn't mean he wasn't brave enough to (after all, he forces back the eyes with the Phial - Sam reckons the Elves would have made a song about that!) It just wasn't his brief. He had a very strong concept of his duty by the time he and Sam were alone on the Quest. That was to keep going towards the mountain as long as he could, and keep from capture for as long as possible. Painful, hard, agonising, humiliating, not swashbuckling. But brave? Hell, yes.

03-17-2014, 07:56 AM	#39
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	LOTRelf, I think it was the illness the March after that one when Tolkien said he finally decided to sail West. The one where Sam was home, but Elanor was being/about to be born, and Frodo managed "with a great effort" to hide his illness. Fully agree about different kinds of strength. Just because Frodo doesn't get the chance to fight a giant spider, it doesn't mean he wasn't brave enough to (after all, he forces back the eyes with the Phial - Sam reckons the Elves would have made a song about that!) It just wasn't his brief. He had a very strong concept of his duty by the time he and Sam were alone on the Quest. That was to keep going towards the mountain as long as he could, and keep from capture for as long as possible. Painful, hard, agonising, humiliating, not swashbuckling. But brave? Hell, yes. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always." Last edited by Pervinca Took; 03-17-2014 at 08:01 AM.