Frodo's Sacrifice - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

06-09-2002, 11:43 AM

What an incredible discussion!!! I feel that by wading in, I'll be way over my head...

Many of the ideas presented here have given me a lot of food for thought. I especially like the aspect of both good and evil growing in Frodo at the same time, causing and ever increasing tension. Gandalf's comments of the Dark Night of the Soul, and the almost ubiquitous references to Frodo's suffering....yet no one has discussed whyhe hadto suffer. The one thing that most everyone agrees is a thing to be avoided, a "bad" thing, is the one thing most necessary. In a sense, it was Frodo's willingness to suffer that was his "salvation" (for lack of a better term)
The other idea that i wanted to toss out was the fact that Tolkien made it clear that Frodo did not stay in the West, but that he too died and left the confines of this world...the West for him was nothis final home, but part of his journey.

06-09-2002, 11:43 AM	#11
eloin Guest Posts: n/a	What an incredible discussion!!! I feel that by wading in, I'll be way over my head... Many of the ideas presented here have given me a lot of food for thought. I especially like the aspect of both good and evil growing in Frodo at the same time, causing and ever increasing tension. Gandalf's comments of the Dark Night of the Soul, and the almost ubiquitous references to Frodo's suffering....yet no one has discussed whyhe hadto suffer. The one thing that most everyone agrees is a thing to be avoided, a "bad" thing, is the one thing most necessary. In a sense, it was Frodo's willingness to suffer that was his "salvation" (for lack of a better term) The other idea that i wanted to toss out was the fact that Tolkien made it clear that Frodo did not stay in the West, but that he too died and left the confines of this world...the West for him was nothis final home, but part of his journey.