Yeah, if the West is assisted living, Tolkien should have made that clearer in the book itself... because I just saw it as a trip to some version of heaven. But even as assisted living, it smacks as giving up to me. Mind you, I favour stories that end with people finding ways to live and find some measure of happiness WITH their scars, so maybe I'm biased. I do recognize that there's some message in there about saving worlds even though by doing so you yourself aren't fit to live in them anymore, and that can be a cool message too... so, yeah, it's just an personal preference, I suppose.
Dean has even gone as far as to quote Samwise, so yeah, I see it easily. Also, funny because like LoTR, Supernatural is told primarily though Samwise's POV in the end, and only very occasionally from Frodo's.
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Date: 2013-06-21 07:44 am (UTC)Dean has even gone as far as to quote Samwise, so yeah, I see it easily. Also, funny because like LoTR, Supernatural is told primarily though Samwise's POV in the end, and only very occasionally from Frodo's.