Here’s why you should push on through the sometimes dry, sometimes biblical, sometimes ridiculous appendices at the end of books. OK, sometimes they are ridiculously dry and stupid or just reference and bibliography. Fine.
But tonight, creeping toward the end of the audiobook version of Lord of the Rings, deep deep in the appendices, the story of Arwen, daughter of Elrond, Evenstar of the Elves, and Aragorn, sixteenth Chieftain of the Dúnedain, the Rangers of the North, heir of Isildur and rightful claimant to the thrones of Arnor and Gondor, crowned as King Elessar or Elfstone.
Many tears were shed by me as their story unfolded and fell open to its ending.
