#many thoughts about it wahh maybe one day i'll actually be able to express them properly

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no one talk to me i am thinking about sam "i don't rightly know what i want: but i have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the shire" gamgee and gollum who "has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end" being frodo's companions right until the last minute and playing an essential role in destroying the ring just like sam himself and gandalf knew they would

#i can't believe i never noticed this parallel!!! #i'm genuinely having so much fun with my reread i'm going vv slow because i keep stopping to underline stuff and think about it #and i'm trying vv hard not to be super annoying about it and like . not liveblog the whole thing but i can talk a little bit about it #you know. as a treat >:) #i mean i know everyone loves lotr and i doubt anyone would mind but idk i just feel like i'm not good at articulating my thoughts #might make a tag just in case anyone wants to blacklist it though hm #angie rereads lotr lb #← there you go #anyways!!!! i don't know i just. have so many thoughts on fate in general and how there are so many instances even early in the book #where characters — in many case frodo himself; have very clear genre awareness #and foreshadow the inevitable that's coming and they may not know exactly how or when but they all know it's coming!!! #which makes the choices they make to go on despite despite all the more beautiful 🤧🤧 #this is NOT to drag the movies but movie!frodo for example still thinks he'll return to the shire soon until almost the very end and of #course you could argue that it takes a while for book!frodo to realise just how grave the situation at hand is but from the very #moment that he knows he has to leave the shire he was aware that heading to rivendell might just be step one and he may not return #that's not to say book!frodo is inherently superior i love them both with my entire heart 🥺 i just have an enormous fascination with #fate in general and fate in tolkien's writing and the way it's portrayed in the different books and the different adaptations and have #many thoughts about it wahh maybe one day i'll actually be able to express them properly #angie.txt #okay to rb btw