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Although I was already a year in, The fellowship of the Ring was anouther beginning. It caught me a little less off guard this time because I was used to the world and some of it’s characters but this time around I knew I would be traveling further and with higher stakes and new characters. We weren’t after some treasure, we were out to save the world. Grade 9 was just the light hearted prologue.
For me, and probably most people, the first year of high school was the beginning of an adventure. On the first day, when the bus pulls in and, like Bilbo, you take your first step out of the Shire and begin a treacherous journey with a rag-tag team of Dwarves and no matter how excited and ready you feel, you can’t help but feel intimidated by the world ahead of you. The giant spiders, that wait for you in dark forests, the freezing mountains. The choices you’ll face, do we go over the freezing mountain or go through the dank tunnels beneath it?
You’ve brought down Isengard, Saruman is dead and just when you’ve reached a point in your journey where you think you know all the ins and outs of the world, you reach Mordor and the climax begins. I’m not at the end yet but grade 12 is shaping up to be the biggest year yet, the epic conclusion we’ve been waiting for.
The series ends in peaceful happiness though, the Hobbits are back in the Shire, Aragorn is King, All is well. I hope that's what it feels like to some extent, at prom and commencement.
After that, it's summer vacation and we're off to a new series. Star Wars maybe.
Life is dark from time to time, the bad guys can seem so powerful that you can stand at The Black gates, staring at the face of evil and still be powerless to do nothing. Some people remind me of Gollum a little bit, the world puts them through so much and still their tormented, even by the characters you've always seen as the good guys. There's brightness to of course, old friends return, like Gandalf, and in the end you're reminded that good always triumphs over evil. By now you’re also as familiar with your fellow citizens of Middle Earth as you can be, you know the Ents, the Orcs, the Trolls, the Dwarves and the Elves.
