Bittersweet Endings (for All Who Live to See Such Times) (opens in new tab)

This is a story about the theatrical release of The Fellowship of the Ring, about finding hope in your despair and despair in your hope, and about the year 2001. I first read The Lord of the Rings at age nine, enraptured by the fold-out maps in my mother’s beautiful 1978 hardcover set. I didn’t […]