[Ronly Bonly Jones]

The deepest sadness and the greatest brilliance of the series lies in how Frodo cannot return to the home he has preserved at the cost of his deepest self. As he says immediately before he, well, dies: "I wanted to save the Shire, Sam, and it has been saved, but not for me." To which the book adds, "So it must sometimes be, that someone must give something up, to lose it, in order for others to have it."

Any soldier returning from his Mordor cannot but understand those words as the truest in the whole book.

[KneelBeforeZod]

"the good of the many outweighs the good of the few, or the one"~~mr. spock

[MrConfettiMan]

To which the book adds, "So it must sometimes be, that someone must give something up, to lose it, in order for others to have it."

Hmmm, that quote reminds me of somebody else who sacrificed himself for the sake of others. ;-)

[My back yard]

Any soldier returning from his Mordor cannot but understand those words as the truest in the whole book.

Yes, and God Bless them, the soldiers, every one.