• baines@lemmy.cafe
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    10 days ago

    sorry the solitary was tongue in cheek

    but don’t use the word laws around here, don’t you know they are only threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation

    as to frodo being a hero I agree, heroes in a story also rarely suffer for their poor judgement and stuff just works out

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      10 days ago

      You must not have read LotR too closely if you didn’t think Frodo suffered. He was stabbed by the Morgul-knife which left a wound that pained him for the rest of his life. He was bit by Shelob with a paralyzing bite that left him listless. He lost his finger to Gollum and never got it back.

      When he returned to the Shire (and settled down after the scouring of the Shire) he found he could no longer find happiness in daily life. He suffered intensely with PTSD and the pain of his old wounds. When he was offered the opportunity to sail off to the undying lands (home of the Valar and the place to which all elves were leaving Middle Earth for) he took it. This was him admitting he could no longer live a happy, normal life among people who had not felt the trauma of war as deeply as he had.

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        10 days ago

        sounds like a tuesday but real people don’t get the jesus allegory elven wonderland at the end

        but yea all his suffering is relatively personal and he won in the end, so kinda minor

        still pretty fantastical it resulted the way it did