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1. Christi Junior (christijunior@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 02:27:03 JST Christi Junior

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   • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
   • Judge Dread
   @judgedread @TrevorGoodchild Tolkien was a veteran of one of nastiest, most hellish wars ever conducted, so he was far from naïve about what kind of sacrifices are sometimes demanded of you. At the same time, unlike people like Overrated Degenerate McFatass, he didn't wallow in the filth, but instead celebrated beauty.
   
   I'd argue that Lord of the Rings has the happiest ending it could possibly have *while still staying true to the events that preceded it and all the darkness we had witnessed*. That's the art of it, I actually love happy endings, but they have to ring true and feel EARNED, which means that some characters don't get what they deserve, some things just never get fixed.
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   • Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 02:27:04 JST Judge Dread

     • Trevor Goodchild:verified::pondering_orb:
     @TrevorGoodchild The most impressive thing about Lord of the Rings is that he made it up as he went.
     
     Aragorn wasn't the true king of Gondor in the Prancing Pony, he was just a ranger from the north helping his fren Gandalf.
     
     Yet it is more coherent than most 'story arc' series allegedly thought out from day one.
     
     For one thing he had strength of character. Straczynski (not a jew, btw) wimped out on his original bleak ending of Babylon 5 because he didn't have the heart to disappoint the fans.
     
     Frodo's wound never heals fully.
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