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I Entulessë (The Return)  by MJ 3 Review(s)
LarnerReviewed Chapter: 18 on 10/3/2010
Excellent, now that Frodo has seen more than most of the Wise and Mighty! About time they learned the full purpose for the circlet--one Ring meant to do more than the original Gandalf had borne did in preserving his great self.

FantasyFanReviewed Chapter: 18 on 9/27/2010
So it is to be a happy ending after all. I find it very funny that the cure required is for Gandalf to wear a very showy crown all the time, so that all who see him can be reminded of his accomplishments, the favor of Eru, and their own failure all at the same time. Very neat little package, that. Also pointedly funny is that Eru has deliberately chosen to appear in the form of a very insignificant servant (Ványalos). Don't know if any of the Valar even got that one.

My favorite part of the chapter though, is your independent support for my personal UUT that Frodo and Bilbo (and by extension Sam) would be granted the grace to live out lifespans unfettered by illness or other dimishment, and leave them at the point of their own choice in gladness and completeness. I could never believe they would arrive at the "undying lands," receive whatever support they could in the short years they had left, and then just die (no time left in Bilbo's case, Frodo's life would obviously have been severly shortented by his wounds, and Sam would have arrived as an old and grieving hobbit to find them both long gone). No canon support, as far as I know, for this idea; yet it is utterly consisent with other exceptions Eru has made to his own rules over the course of the histories. And makes me feel much better, as well.

shireboundReviewed Chapter: 18 on 9/24/2010
“So if I understand you aright, you're saying that Frodo and I can stay here for as long as we like, not worrying about getting old or sick or driven mad with boredom or fatigue, and give up this life only when and if we have a mind to?”

Dear Bilbo. What a concise and hobbity summary of all that he heard. :)

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