What characters do your friends and family identify with? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Mithalwen · 09-19-2007, 01:59 PM

I would quote from a post I made long ago in "Are you a better person?" about my mother:
We knew her cancer was terminal from diagnosis, but she went through so much against the odds and won a little precious remission. I had long ago learnt by heart Sam's song in Cirith Ungol and I had copied it for her. And it really summed up her attitude - she kept on going in the face of what was logically a hopeless situation.

However she was like Frodo in that ultimately the burden was hers and we could only try to carry her.

More cheerfully I identified with Eowyn when I first read the books - I spent just about all my freetime either reading or at the stables in those days and never accepted that I shouldn't do things because I was a girl.

09-19-2007, 01:59 PM	#5
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,460	Sorry to be depressing... I would quote from a post I made long ago in "Are you a better person?" about my mother: We knew her cancer was terminal from diagnosis, but she went through so much against the odds and won a little precious remission. I had long ago learnt by heart Sam's song in Cirith Ungol and I had copied it for her. And it really summed up her attitude - she kept on going in the face of what was logically a hopeless situation. However she was like Frodo in that ultimately the burden was hers and we could only try to carry her. More cheerfully I identified with Eowyn when I first read the books - I spent just about all my freetime either reading or at the stables in those days and never accepted that I shouldn't do things because I was a girl. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace