بخش 18

How do you pick up the threads of an old life?

How do you go on…

when in your heart you begin to understand…

there is no going back?

There are some things that time cannot mend…

some hurts that go too deep…

that have taken hold.

Mr. Frodo?

What is it?

It’s been four years to the day since Weathertop, Sam.

It’s never really healed.

“There and Back Again.” A Hobbit’s tale by Bilbo Baggins.

And “The Lord of the Rings” by Frodo Baggins.

You finished it.

Not quite.

There’s room for a little more.

Bilbo once told me his part in this tale would end…

that each of us must come and go in the telling.

Bilbo’s story was now over.

There would be no more journeys for him…

save one.

Tell me again, lad, where are we going?

To the harbor, Bilbo.

The Elves have accorded you a special honor…

a place on the last ship to leave Middle-earth.

Frodo…

any chance of seeing that old Ring of mine again?

The one I gave you.

I’m sorry, Uncle.

I’m afraid I lost it.

Oh.

Pity.

I should like to have held it one last time.

Well, here’s a sight I have never seen before.

The power of the Three Rings is ended.

The time has come…

for the dominion of Men.

I Aear can ven na mar (The sea calls us home.)

I think I’m…

quite ready for another adventure.

Farewell…

my brave Hobbits.

My work is now finished.

Here at last, on the shores of the sea…

comes the end of our Fellowship.

I will not say, “Do not weep”…

for not all tears are an evil.

It is time, Frodo.

What does he mean?

We set out to save the Shire, Sam.

And it has been saved.

But not for me.

You don’t mean that.

You can’t leave.

The last pages are for you, Sam.

My dear Sam

You cannot always be torn in two.

You will have to be one and whole for many years.

You have so much to enjoy and to be and to do.

I’m back.