Ok, I've read some of the comments on the first page, so maybe someone's done this before me, but never mind. I'd just like to clarify a few things about Tolkien's work that people have got wrong. First, The Grey Havens isn't "the home of immortals" that Frodo went off to, although he did go there and Elves do live there, he just went there so he could depart across the sea to the lands in the west. "The home of immortals" makes me think Valinor, but I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Frodo didn't actually go to Valinor, as he is mortal, but an island off the coast of the Undying Lands that Elves live on, I can't remember it's name.
Also, the Elves' time in Númenor wasn't coming to an end. The Elves never did reside in Númenor, and Númenor was destroyed by the Valar (or Eru, can't remember) thousands of years before The Lord of the Rings is set. Plus again the matter of the Grey Havens, they weren't going back to the Grey Havens, they were only going there so they could return to the Undying Lands. That's the only mistakes I can think of, so please try not to post incorrect information. Oh, and also, nothing of Tolkien's is an allegory, you can make comparisons with the real world and so fourth, yes. HOWEVER Tolkien said something along the lines of not wanting people to make allegorical interpretations of Arda. If you watch the first part on the Appendices DVDs on the extended edition of The Fellowship film then you'll see.
But the song, very good musically and lyrically, and yes, it's about the War of the Ring. What was said about Galadriel being the Queen of Light I completely agree with, and I always thought of the Prince of Peace as being Aragorn, and when he "embraced the gloom" was when he went into the Paths of the Dead, but the idea of Frodo being the Prince of Peace makes just as much, maybe even more, sense. The waiting for morning could mean the arrival of the Rohirrim to lift the siege from Minas Tirith? Although they didn't actually know that the Rohirrim were coming, so it could be more metaphorical, when the shadow is lifted from Middle-Earth. |
