October 5, TA 3019
5 October 2006 21:41:59Gandalf and the Hobbits leave Rivendell.
"Rivendell" by Alan Lee
With Tolkien and the Hobbits, we readers are now anxious to return home to the Shire. After nearly two years of wandering about in the Wild, we are ready for the comfort of the familiar, even if it means leaving the magic of Rivendell. We even get a new verse to the Travelling Song:
The Road goes ever on and on
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Let others follow it who can!
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet.
Will Frodo be a traveller doomed to wander, or will there be a Home at the end of his Road? Elrond's cryptic farewell--look for us next fall in the woods of the Shire--plants the seed of the question.
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Let others follow it who can!
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet.
Will Frodo be a traveller doomed to wander, or will there be a Home at the end of his Road? Elrond's cryptic farewell--look for us next fall in the woods of the Shire--plants the seed of the question.