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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aris Dragonborn" data-source="post: 2623116" data-attributes="member: 18434">For me, it's LotR: TRotK, in the appendices. Reading the timeline of the War of the Ring was fascinating, as it touched briefly on what was happening in other parts of Middle Earth (the assaults on Lothlorien and the Lonely Mountain), then continued on to tell what happened after Frodo sailed from the Grey Havens. I was a little sad when Sam left, but what really got to me was this:1541 - In this year on March 1st came at last the passing of King Elessar. It is said that the beds of Meriadoc and Peregrin were set beside the bed of the great king. Then Legolas built a grey ship in Ithilien and sailed down Anduin and so over the Sea; and with him, it is said, went Gimli the Dwarf. And when that ship passed an end was come in Middle-earth of the Fellowship of the Ring.Gets me every time. Every time. It's so.....final. We can sit back and daydream about what Gondor will be like under the rule of Aragorn's son Eldarion, and what new adventures await men, dwarves, elves, and hobbits, but the Fellowship that we knew and loved is gone forever.Minor Threadjack: I get the same feeling at the end of the movie version of RotK, especially when 'Into the West' begins playing and the images of the characters are shown one by one. It's beauty is haunting. /Threadjack</blockquote>