Who is Marilynn Miller? And what was her idea? I have no objection to you showing her or the class the story regardless of what the answers are, but if I encountered her name before in my webwanderings I forgot it again. (This happens.) But I started writing the story because of what I'd read in the books and HoME.
One of the reasons I wanted to write this story (and other related bits, if they ever get written) is my opinion that Sam has issues to work through just as much as Frodo does, but that his way of working through things is different. And of course, his underlying optimism will come to his rescue in the long run. And book Sam isn't entirely impervious to Gollum, he just doesn't know what to do with him, and he's too tired to be patient. I can see him getting into a miserable state and grieving for the pitiable creature he spared at the doorstep of the Sammath Naur.
In the same way I think that once Frodo got back to the Shire he had bursts of being happy, but they just didn't stick very long. Having played the depression game myself I know it is a rollercoaster, not a steady downhill ride.
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branchandroot
Re: R&R
Date: 2004-05-18 08:45 pm (UTC)One of the reasons I wanted to write this story (and other related bits, if they ever get written) is my opinion that Sam has issues to work through just as much as Frodo does, but that his way of working through things is different. And of course, his underlying optimism will come to his rescue in the long run. And book Sam isn't entirely impervious to Gollum, he just doesn't know what to do with him, and he's too tired to be patient. I can see him getting into a miserable state and grieving for the pitiable creature he spared at the doorstep of the Sammath Naur.
In the same way I think that once Frodo got back to the Shire he had bursts of being happy, but they just didn't stick very long. Having played the depression game myself I know it is a rollercoaster, not a steady downhill ride.
Glad the gloom lifted somewhat.