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Originally Posted by davem
'Heroic failure', 'tragic hero', or, in short, Everyman.
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To add to Davem's excellent thesis here, and to go slightly away from the chapter at hand, this makes the
Lord of the Rings a much more moving and powerful book in that it offers the hope of FORGIVENESS, the idea that even those who ultimately succumb to wrongdoing have a hope of redemption, a hope of regaining a happy, fulfilled life. The parting at the end of the story is a good deal more hopeful if we realise that it means that Frodo has a chance at finding peace again, at finding redemption, instead of just a trip to the doctor/psychiatrist from which he will not return.