Eleni ar nen

This isn't a very long post, but I have lots of other things to get to today. It's been a pretty rough week, and I wanted to write something. Sam says at the end of The Two Towers that "In the end, it is only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must past. And when the sun shines out, it will shine out the clearer. Those are the stories that meant something."

This is one of my favorite quotes from Lord of the Rings, even if it is from the movies. There is, of course, a longer book equivalent (not really a quote):

"The land seemed full of creaking and cracking and sly noises, but there was no sound of voice or foot. Far above the Ephel Duath in the West the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."

This isn't supposed to be an English essay or anything (and if it were, I get that it'd be a pretty terrible one). I just want to say that even when everything is at its worst, and you feel as if too much has happened out of your control, that you don't have your Sam with you, it's not the end.  It's going to feel like it sometimes. But when Frodo is captured in the tower of Cirith Ungol with no Ring, clothes, almost unable to walk and with whip marks on his body, he doesn't know that Sam is spending the entire time looking for him. He isn't alone.

Sam finds him eventually, and holds Frodo completely safe and secure in his arms. For a moment, Sam is simply happy that he has Frodo again, and Frodo rests and closes his eyes and lets Sam hold him. This lasts for a split second, but it is an ocean of time for Sam. And to any obnoxious comments about Sam and Frodo's relationship, what they have is complete and utter trust that lasts them the entire trilogy. That's what everybody needs when they can't one single star in a black sky. That's what can get us through. It is sad to see someone who doesn't have that-- but more often than not, when they think they don't have someone like that, they really just don't know that they do.

One person to simply hold them, one person to hold.  Even when you can't physically or emotionally feel them, they are always there. Oiale.

I will not say the Day is done/nor bid the Stars farewell.