Painful beauty

[Arwen Evenstar]

I think one of the most pain-ful parts in The Fellowship are when Frodo and Sam are in the boat, hugging each other.<BR>In The Two Towers, it would have to be Sam`s speech at the end:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Frodo: I can`t do this, Sam.<BR>Sam: I know. It`s all wrong. By rights we shouldn`t even be here. But we are. It`s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you don`t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it`s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of going back, only they didn`t. `Cause they were holdin` on to something.<BR>Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?<BR>Sam: That there`s some good, in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it`s worth fightin` for. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>In The Return of the King, I think the whole thing was very pain-ful, in a way.<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>For me, the painful-beautiful moment that comes to mind is the very end of RotK, when Frodo looks back at his friends from on the boat and he smiles at them. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>That was soo sad!<BR>I think the part where it was very pain-ful, (though not in a beautiful way)was when Frodo told Sam to go home.<BR>All this makes me cry just thinking about it.