Timeless Truths & Classic Critiques c/o C S Lewis' & J R R Tolkien's Tomes

As One well put it: What is a (hu)man profited if s/he gain the whole world but [ultimately]  lose their own soul? (Though this blogger well appreciates that that  may not have been in Tolkien's mind when thus characterizing Arwen, much less upon the mind or in the thoughts of his cinematic adapters Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens.)

How subtle evil is in its effects upon us, promising us unanticipated gains and glory, when even do we ultimately seem to achieve such it always carries a deadly sting in its tale... Thus and so the fellowship's 'ring-bearer', Frodo Baggins, would himself "wish for death before it was all over", as traitorous Boromir assured/prophesied to him... Yet Frodo, with the undying support of his righthand 'man'(or rather hobbit), Samwise Gamgee, nevertheless went all the way to accomplish his weighty mission, not even turning back when it had become clear it would cost him his very life... And, like the God-Man Christ Jesus, it ultimately did cost him his life, but having gone to the very brink/precipice, like That One he came through the (volcanic) fires (of Mordor) to a renewed and glorious life - if not in the world of his day... He had a far better home awaiting him 'over the seas' in the Undying Lands...