Grief and Gratitude, Grok - Shifting

[grok]

The End of All Things

Oh, Those playlist items on the way in to work...has me in a contemplative mood... (or melancholy is a secondary trait of mine)

overcoming the challenges, the changes in you, and the cost...

Snips (from web sites) representing my incomplete train of thoughts. the echos of changes in ourselves in this trauma.

The End of all Things - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (soundtrack)

The End of All Things is the fifty-seventh scene
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Sam half-dragging Frodo out through the doorway. They find a raised boulder for what they believe will be their final respite. Frodo, no longer weighed down with the burden of the Ring, exclaims "It's done". He lays down, with a sea of molten lava surrounding them, and closes his eyes.
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Themes
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A theme of The Lord of the Rings is the deep cost for the characters to protect the people and places they love, and how they will be forever changed despite the victory.
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Aragorn has spent the series avoiding his destiny and the film’s ending shows what beautiful things can happen when someone decides to become who they were meant to be.
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The four main hobbits...they have been changed greatly by their journey while their home and those closest to them have remained largely unchanged and ignorant of the dangers they narrowly avoided. For the longest time, the hobbits were out of their element, away from Hobbiton, but being back, they again find themselves out of place.
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The things that they used to mind don’t seem to matter as much...much of what they have seen and learned lingers over them
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Frodo speaks rhetorically to himself about what it means to move on when others can't move with you.
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the price it cost means that he can no longer be a part of this world. Frodo saves Middle-earth for everyone at the cost of saving himself.
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about a traumatic journey into dark and cruel places, and the difficulty that comes with trying to rebuild a normal life on the other side.
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is about picking up the pieces after failure, about trying even when there is no hope of success
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“How do you pick up the threads of an old life, when in your heart, you know there is no going back?”
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The Story will go on...

in a moment of abject despair, Sam had cradled Frodo’s nearly lifeless body and whispered, “Don’t leave me alone. Don’t go where I can’t follow.”
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Sam never left Frodo’s side, never lost faith in him, never left him behind. Now Frodo is leaving him for good, and he can never follow ... In the end, the true final scene ... It’s hardly even a scene. Sam walks home, turning Frodo’s words over and over in his mind. “Your part in the story will go on….you will have to be one and whole for many years.”

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