The Return of the King Page #6

it ends with his madness.

What's that?

Gollum!

Here?

Fighting with something that is not there?

Mr. Frodo!

Invisible!

"Frodo of the nine fingers

"And the Ring of Doom

"Why does he have nine fingers"

Mr. Frodo!

"Where is the Ring of Doom?"

Precious! Precious!

My Precious!

My master! Your poor hand!

My master!

'Tis better this way!

'Tis better than that madness!

Look!

Mine!

Precious!

Gollum has completed our quest.

The Ring is destroyed in the fires

where it was wrought!

At last...

...the Ring exists no more!

She's erupting!

Quick, master,

back through these cracks, run.

All Mordor is being destroyed!

How?

How? There is but one answer.

The ring bearer has fulfilled his quest.

The realm of Sauron is ended!

And with him, us!

For the quake cannot tell good from evil.

Look! See ye!

The Lord of the Eagles and his legions!

Our armies are saved!

It's no use! The lava will have us!

I am glad you are with me

here at the end of all things, Sam.

And you with me, master.

I don't want to give up yet.

It's not like me somehow,

if you understand.

Maybe not, Sam.

But it's like things are in the world.

Hopes fail.

An end comes.

There is no escape.

Die well, Samwise!

Yes, once again...

...as he had so many times in the past...

...Gwaihir, the magnificent Lord of

The Eagles, had come to our rescue.

The mighty war birds

returned us to Minas-Tirith...

...where months later...

...our dead buried, our wounded healed...

...the fields of Pelennor

green with springtime...

...the city cleansed and rebuilt...

...the standard of King Aragorn

was raised finally...

...to the top of the White Tower.

And down below,

the restored Great Gate swung open...

...and King Aragorn officially

took possession of his capital city.

Behold! The return of the King!

"The end of the Ring, the return of the King

"A new age has come to the land

"The end of the Ring, the return of the King

"He shall rule with a true healing hand

"The quest is done

"The battle won

"And all have lost in the winning

"Oft hope is born

"When all's forlorn

"And there's a new beginning

"He who had the courage not to fail

"The bearer of the Ring we hail

"Praise them

"Praise them

"Praise them with great praise

"Praise them with great praise

"The end of the Ring, the return of the King

"A new age has come to the land

"The end of the Ring, the return of the King

"He shall rule

"With a true

"Healing hand"

"Frodo of the nine fingers

"And the Ring of Doom"

And now we all know.

But alas, look.

Just resting my eyes.

Sweet Bilbo, you will return with us

tomorrow to Hobbitown...

...where you may rest your eyes

as much as you wish.

Return?

Nay.

On the morrow...

...I depart with Elrond and Gandalf.

Depart?

From the Gray Havens.

On the white ship.

What means this?

We are old, our job is done.

The Third Age of Middle-earth is over...

...and as we pass on to the lands

beyond the sea...

...the new age of Man begins.

I shall miss you.

But I thought only Elves departed thus.

How can Bilbo join you?

Bilbo has served us well.

There is always room for a friend.

Have I served thee well?

Need you ask such a question?

I have grown weary of this world.

The weight of the Ring all of these years...

...has worn me far beyond my age.

I would, if it pleases you...

...set sail with you on the morrow.

Good friend,

savior of all we hold precious...

...of course thou might join us.

Mr. Frodo.

We cannot be parted.

But, must I go, too?

Nay, dear Sam.

You are still young in spirit.

You and Merry and Pippin.

A good life awaits you back in the Shire.

With plump Hobbit wives...

...good Hobbit meals...

...Iong leisurely smokings

of good Hobbit pipes.

And laps filled

with bouncing Hobbit babies.

Now you must keep the book

of the Hobbits up to date.

I will.

The Orcs and Trolls have gone to dust...

...the Elves are slowly departing.

Dwarves have disappeared

into their misty mountains...

...and there have been no dragons for ages.

Right!

What troubles you, Sam?

Will there be no room for Hobbits

in this new age of Man?

I think so. For of us all,

Hobbits are the closest to Man...

...the most human.

And one day they will be as Men are.

Look you.

Frodo is a bit larger than Bilbo,

just as you are larger than Frodo.

And younger still than you,

and larger are Merry and Pippin.

And, if you keep the book

of the Hobbits as Frodo asked...

...ages from now,

when your stories are still told...

...there will be those humans who might

well wonder, "Is there Hobbit in me?"

Is there?

"Roads go ever, ever on

"To the lands beyond the sea

"On a white ship will I sail

"Watching shadows part for me

"Leaving havens gray with rain

"Now that years have slipped away

"Leaving friends with gentle pain

"As they start another day

"Roads I traveled I must leave

"For I've turned the final bend

"Weep not empty tears but grieve

"As the road comes to an end

"It's so easy not to try

"Let the world go drifting by

"If you never say hello

"You won't have to say goodbye"

And lo, as foretold...

...the epoch of The Return of the King

ends at the beginning...

...of the new age of Man.

"If you never say hello

"You won't have to say goodbye"

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