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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1217936" data-attributes="member: 812">[spoiler]After the Ring is destroyed, the hobbits return to the Shire, only to find that Saruman has taken over and turned their homey little paradise into an opressive, industrial wasteland. A resistance force is quickly raised and Saruman's forces are speedily dispatched. Saruman himself is allowed to go free by Frodo, but Wormtongue kills his former master and runs off. Sam becomes Mayor and sets about fathering more children than any long-suffering hobbit woman should be asked to bear.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The reason I always found it so enthralling was the small scale of it all and yet how important, how truly sad it was. Frodo spends the whole time trying to get everyone to avoid fighting, and although he accepts the necessity ("You won't get them to surrender just by looking shocked and sad, my dear Frodo," is I think Merry's line), he never takes part in the battles and, as I said, would even spare Saruman's life when the villain is at last brought to bay.[/spoiler]</blockquote>