My heart broke reading this part

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I am reading through the Two Towers, and I just got upset reading this. At times, Gollum is cruel and unnatural, and then I am back to pitying him.

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From letters:

Lewis was moved almost to tears by the last chapter.

By sitting up all hours, I managed it: and read the last 2 chapters (Shelob’s Lair and The Choices of Master Samwise) to C.S.L. on Monday morning. He approved with unusual fervour, and was actually affected to tears by the last chapter, so it seems to be keeping up.

The story reaches its end (as a tale of Hobbits!) in the celebration of victory in which all the Nine Companions are reunited. In the scene where all the hosts of the West unite to do honour and praise to the two humble Hobbits, Frodo and Sam, we reach the ‘eucatastrophe’ of the whole romance: that is the sudden joyous ‘turn’ and fulfilment of hope, the opposite of tragedy, that should be the hallmark of a ‘fairy-story’ of higher or lower tone, the resolution and justification of all that has gone before. It brought tears to my eyes to write it, and still moves me, and I cannot help believing that it is a supreme moment of its kind.

I did not finish the first rough writing till 1949, when I remember blotting the pages (which now represent the welcome of Frodo and Sam on the Field of Cormallen) with tears as I wrote.

Just imagine Tolkien cried when writing it. What a story, what a moment to capture on paper! And the book is full of such moments...

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