There and Back Again

• "If Aragorn survives this war, you will still be parted. If Sauron is defeated, and Aragorn made king and all that you hope for comes true, you will still have to taste the bitterness of mortality. Whether by the sword or the slow decay of time, Aragorn will die. And there will be no comfort for you. No comfort to ease the pain of his passing. He will come to death, an image of the splendor of the kings of men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. But you, my daughter, you will linger on in darkness and in doubt, as nightfall in winter that comes without a star. Here you will dwell, bound to your grief, under the fading trees, until all the world is changed and the long years of your life are utterly spent." Elrond.
  

These words are from the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and I'm almost sure that they are not to be found on the books, nevertheless this words reflect to me what a broken heart is and the feeling of losing all that you love. It's profound and poetic, and deals with perhaps the hardest thing we have to endure as mortals. When we lose the ones we love we become confused "lingering in darkness and in doubt" because that is what death is exactly, a state of confusion because death was never part of the original plan. And then I remember the words Professor Tolkien quoted:

“There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that happens to [a] man is ever natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident. And even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.”

Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the keyspring of The Lord of the Rings.
J.R.R.Tolkien on a BBC interview, quoting Simone de Beauvoir