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Easter's Answer to Sam's Questions

JRR Jokien
Apr 9, 2023
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After the One Ring is destroyed and the Eagles bear Frodo and Sam from the slopes of Mount Doom, Sam wakes and is greeted by Gandalf, whom he last saw plummeting to certain death into the depths of Khazad-dûm alongside the Balrog. But instead of the familiar Gandalf the Grey, he is greeted by Gandalf “robed in white, his beard now gleaming like pure snow in the twinkling of the leafy sunlight.”

Astonished and “between bewilderment and great joy,” he is struck speechless. But at last he gathers himself and says;

Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What’s happened to the world?

We wake this morning to another Easter, another day remembering and celebrating One who died to save his friends and who returned from death victorious.

What's happened to the world? Christ is risen! And the empty tomb changes everything.

Is everything sad going to come untrue? Yes, and it has already begun.

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