Painful beauty

[Gamja]

i found two parts in the series that are painful:<P>1) before helms deep, where the rohirrim go to the armory. I felt great pain when that boy picked up an axe with a calm look on his face.<P>2) the charge against osgilath (faramir and crew vs. the orcs i nthe capped osgilath). The song that merry sang and the gondorians braving suicide moved me quite a bit. they never once wavered against the orcs.