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.............Sure, Gandalph the bla bla bla and his imp/ghost/kid/friend............<P>I have no idea about this and I'm just gonna nod and wait for the story to continue. Like when the bits in The Princess Bride that happen outside the story. Just sit tight and wait for the eels.<P>I personally have a sneaking suspcion that this is T's attempt to foreshadow more without "hinting" on the boards. I have been kind of paranoid lately though.<P>------------------
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Okay, I'm not sure what the hell just happened, but if this wraps up the "rings" storyline, I have to say it's vaguely dissapointing...<P>------------------
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Quinch:
<B>Okay, I'm not sure what the hell just happened, but if this wraps up the "rings" storyline, I have to say it's vaguely dissapointing...<P></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>It is and it isn't. One thing I do admire about Fans! is T's willingness to NOT give us the "expected" kind of ending. Sometimes the heroes spend lots of effort, risk their lives, and end up not accomplishing a darn thing. Sometimes they bring the villain to justice. Sometimes there is no villain. <P>And sometime, much as is the case in the "real world", nobody ever quite figures out what happened. We just have to go on living without the vanished people and with the knowledge that whatever just occured could happen again. That is the real scary thing about this storyline - the enduring mystery and lack of real closure.

Now, see, I just think T's on crack...

Am I the only here who really, *really* liked this ending?<P>The idea of Galdalf still watching events unfold (whether from the present or in the future) just... ooh, I'm not fluent enough in English to describe what it did to me. Brought me a giddy tingly feeling down my spine. Or something. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"><P>As a sidenote - I doubt T even knew about it, but Tolkien *himself* several times played with the theme of 'echoes' of past events, influencing the lives of future people... The most noted example is with his unfinished tales of the "Lost Road" and "The Notion Club Papers"... In both these stories, people of the 20th century start receiving visions and sounds of past events of Middle Earth - mainly the fall of Numenor (Atlantis)... In fact in the latter story, the mere recollection of the memory of the fall of Atlantis, bring forth an "echo" of the catastrophe, a devastating storm that "felled more trees, did more damage, and killed more people than any in living memory" (quoting from memory)<P>And Tolkien also has these protagonists with the vision often echo Elendil (and also his name) *throughout* history... Elendil and Herendil ("Elf-friend" and "joy-friend") in Middle-Earth times, become Aelfwine and Eadwine in medieaval England or Alboin and Audoin in Italy...
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I'm with you, Aris, I thought that was fantastic! It wasn't meant to be the climax, that was what happened to Will; it was a d