'But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. 'No, they never end as tales,' said Frodo. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We've got – you've got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you! Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam, said Frodo, and I could not have. But that's a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it – and the Silmaril went on and came to Eärendil. But, said Sam, and tears started in his eyes, I thought you were going to enjoy the Shire, too, for. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. Though you too were a Ring-bearer, if only for a little while. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. But those aren't always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in! I wonder what sort of a tale we've fallen into?' You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same – like old Mr Bilbo. We hear about those as just went on – and not all to a good end, mind you at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. One of the most notable aspects of The Rings of Power 's first season is the familiar sense of friendship between the Harfoots. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. Published Frodo and Sam make up the iconic duo in The Lord of the Rings, and their quotes throughout the books and movies perfectly define their time together. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually – their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. McKellen’s suggestion exemplifies how The Lord of the Rings so successfully carved a niche for itself as a part of queer fandom, and why LGBTQ+ fans are so drawn to the Sam/Frodo relationship in the books: Though Tolkien himself likely didn’t intend to code the relationship as gay, the sheer tenderness of the language and the constant. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. 'And we shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started.
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