Post by Elfhild on Mar 31, 2021 18:22:04 GMT
Even more evidence of this from Tolkien's rejected drafts.
"Frodo and Sam, fighting with the last Nazgul on an island of rock surrounded by the fire of the erupting Mount Doom, are rescued by Gandalf's eagle; and then the clearing up of all loose threads, down even to Bill Ferny's pony, must take place."
--Kirith Ungol, The War of the Ring, 219. (Letter was written in November of 1944)
"Frodo and Sam, fighting with the last Nazgul on an island of rock surrounded by the fire of the erupting Mount Doom, are rescued by Gandalf's eagle; and then the clearing up of all loose threads, down even to Bill Ferny's pony, must take place."
--Kirith Ungol, The War of the Ring, 219. (Letter was written in November of 1944)