Yet in that hour was put to the proof that which Mithrandir had spoken, and help came from the hands of the weak when the Wise faltered. For, as many songs have since sung, it was the Periannath, the Little People, dwellers in hillsides and meadows, that brought them to deliverance.
For Frodo the Halfling, it is said, at the bidding of Mithrandir took on himself the burden, and alone with his servant he passed through peril and darkness and came at last in Sauron’s despite even to Mount Doom; and there into the Fire where it was wrought he cast the Great Ring of Power, and so at last it was unmade and its evil consumed.
The Silmarillion — J.R.R. Tolkien
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That’s lovely and succinct synopsis of the Lord of the Rings…and he spent how many hundred pages fleshing it out? I’m sure glad he did!
There was sooooo much info about LoTR in the last few pages, some implied, some given outright. Part of my brain was amused at the brevity of the telling of the third age. Part of me kept gasping in amazement.
It was definitely not an easy read. I read parts of it aloud to the cats and myself as a way to get through the winding sentences. The only part I blipped over was a few pages of wordy geographic descriptions. I figured the included maps would suffice.
I had read The Children of Húrin earlier but it made so much more sense here. Some of the other stories were just wonderful.