u can’t explain to a normal person the adrenaline and out of body experience you feel when you hear “it’s been a long time coming” like instant shivers and goosebumps
‘I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.’
‘It is not,’ said Frodo.
For those who start the New Year in less than festive mood, consider Tolkien's unpublished New Year diary entry as an 18-year-old:
"Depressed and as much in dark as ever,... God help me. Feel weak and weary."
A thread.
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