Still Alive

[butterfly]

I have quite a few comments to respond to - and I will, though probably not tonight, as I'm heading out in a few minutes - last dinner before my cousin leaves to go back to New York.

Saw RotK again last night.

Anyone else notice how the ending songs - May It Be, Gollum's Song, and then Into the West are all directed to Frodo? Frodo is the 'you' in all three of the songs.

Also, after a touch of reflection, I've decided that as Gollum's Song is Smeagol/Gollum's feelings for Frodo at the end of the Two Towers, so Into the West is Sam's feelings for Frodo at the end of Return of the King. Certain phrases jump out at me - "You and I will meet again," in particular. It's Sam's promise - his Mr. Frodo may need to leave, to follow the call of the sea, but Frodo is going where Sam will, one day, follow.

Man, I love these movies so much.

Comments

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Sam/Frodo is, indeed, an amazing love - through fire and water and shadow and poison they were bound ever more closely, until, in the end, there is no place that Frodo could go where Sam could not follow, even to the Undying Lands themselves.