I was planning to repost Acathalion's post if you had not stepped up to task. I
would go as far as to suggest that it was all their friends--the remains of the
Fellowship who stood at the Black Gate. We know for certain that the hobbits
were on their minds from as far back as Pippin's arrival at Minas Tirith.
Certainly when confronted by evidence of their predicament, they would all have
their minds bent to Frodo and
Sam.
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'I was afraid they were all sailing away, Sam-dad. Then soon there would be none here; and then everywhere would be just places, and'
'And what, Elanorellė?'
'And the light would have faded.'
'I know,' said Sam. 'The light is fading, Elanorellė. But it won't go out yet. It won't ever go quite out, I think now, since I have had you to talk to. For it seems to me now that people can remember it who have never seen it. And yet,' he sighed, 'even that is not the same as really seeing it, like I did.' (the epilogue from HoME IX, emphasis mine)
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