Actually, that was pretty much the feeling that I got from LotR, that most of the time the heroes /did/ think that they were doomed but they carried on anyway, and at the end it wasn't actually them who saved the day but Smeagol finally making one last grab for the Ring and overbalancing. Salvation by accident. If Frodo had been left to it, in the end he probably couldn't have done it. OK, so the heros don't actually die, and the world is saved, but they didn't know that was going to happen, they only knew that they had to try to the end. It only needs that slight tweak to the ending...
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Date: 2005-08-23 07:23 am (UTC)