Welcome to the reading room. I have many favorite parts, but here's the one I
love most (and it didn't get into the movie):
Then as he had kept watch Sam had noticed that at times a light seemed
to be shining faintly within; but now the light was even clearer and stronger.
Frodo's face was peaceful, the marks of fear and care had left it; but it
looked old, old and beautiful, as if the chiselling of the shaping years was
now revealed in many fine lines that had before been hidden, though the
identity of the face was not changed. Not that Sam Gamgee put it that way to
himself. He shook his head, as if finding words useless, and murmured: `I love
him. He's like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him,
whether or no.'
It's poetic and a loving moment in the midst of horror and stress-- the
beauty of a moment-- when Sam sees Frodo's light. Sam is realizing they will
probably not return home. "But I love him, whether or no" is by
far my favorite line in the whole book. Very bittersweet.
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