Tolkien Day & Froday!
"Frodo deserved all honour because he spent every drop of his power of will and body, and that was just sufficient to bring him to the destined point, and no further. Few others, possibly no others of his time, would have got so far. The Other Power then took over: the Writer of the Story (by which I do not mean myself), 'that one ever-present Person who is never absent and never named'.
~Letter 192 to Amy Ronald, July 1956
Frodo is Love.
"I think that an effect of his partial regeneration by love would have been a clearer vision when he claimed the Ring. He would have perceived the evil of Sauron, and suddenly realized that he could not use the Ring and had not the strength or stature to keep it in Sauron's despite: the only way to keep it and hurt Sauron was to destroy it and himself together--and in a flash he may have seen that this woould be also be the greatest service to Frodo. Frodo in the tale actually takes the Ring and claims it, and certainly he too would have had a clear vision--but he was not given any time: he was immediately attacked by Gollum. When Sauron was aware of the seizure of the RIng his one hope was in its power: that the claimant would be unable to relinquish it until Sauron had time to deal with him. Frodo too, would then probably, if not attacked, have had to take the same way: cast himself with the Ring into the abyss. If not he would of course have completely failed. It is an intersting problem: how Sauron would have acted or the claimant have resisted. Sauron sent at once the Ringwraiths. They were naturally fully instructed, and in no way deceived as to the real lordship of the Ring. The wearer would not be invisible to them, but the reverse; and the more vulnerable to their weapons. But the situation was now different to that under Weathertop, where Frodo acted merely in fear and wished only to use (in vain) the Ring's subsidieary power of conferring invisibility. He had grown since then. Would they have been immune from its power if he claimed it as an instrument of command and domination?
~My favorite letter, Letter 246, Sept. 1963 =)
omg, the angst and how dead i would be if Frodo *had* jumped too. :*(
(i think there is an AU-ish story of darker times at Mt. Doom right? ... please direct me if there is... but then i would be like ultra dead from reading that.... ;)
But no,
;)
~Letter 192 to Amy Ronald, July 1956
Frodo is Love.
"I think that an effect of his partial regeneration by love would have been a clearer vision when he claimed the Ring. He would have perceived the evil of Sauron, and suddenly realized that he could not use the Ring and had not the strength or stature to keep it in Sauron's despite: the only way to keep it and hurt Sauron was to destroy it and himself together--and in a flash he may have seen that this woould be also be the greatest service to Frodo. Frodo in the tale actually takes the Ring and claims it, and certainly he too would have had a clear vision--but he was not given any time: he was immediately attacked by Gollum. When Sauron was aware of the seizure of the RIng his one hope was in its power: that the claimant would be unable to relinquish it until Sauron had time to deal with him. Frodo too, would then probably, if not attacked, have had to take the same way: cast himself with the Ring into the abyss. If not he would of course have completely failed. It is an intersting problem: how Sauron would have acted or the claimant have resisted. Sauron sent at once the Ringwraiths. They were naturally fully instructed, and in no way deceived as to the real lordship of the Ring. The wearer would not be invisible to them, but the reverse; and the more vulnerable to their weapons. But the situation was now different to that under Weathertop, where Frodo acted merely in fear and wished only to use (in vain) the Ring's subsidieary power of conferring invisibility. He had grown since then. Would they have been immune from its power if he claimed it as an instrument of command and domination?
~My favorite letter, Letter 246, Sept. 1963 =)
omg, the angst and how dead i would be if Frodo *had* jumped too. :*(
(i think there is an AU-ish story of darker times at Mt. Doom right? ... please direct me if there is... but then i would be like ultra dead from reading that.... ;)
But no,
;)
