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I have Thoughts about both The Scouring of the Shire/all the long epilogue stuff/Appendix A but that Legolas and Gimli closure though....I don't even know where to start with the shipping puns

The House of Healing chapter giving me a lot of after the fact feelings about Le Guin's Tehanu - despite there being some powerful women in this story the way they're all handled as if wayward and fragile is very evocative of what Le Guin so beautifully critiqued

If there's one thing I think the movies really improved on its the character of Aragorn - his characterization is very flat and a little insufferable in the books and the exchange with Eowyn is painfully paternalistic and infantilizing where I think Tolkien meant it to come across as noble and self-sacrificing