I own nothing.
It was funny…how something sad could have come out of a really good thing.
No, Samwise wasn't expecting their lives to be exactly the same after the Fall of Sauron occurred. Although, he honestly couldn't see the harm in hoping for everything else to turn out for the better, now that it was all said and done.
But those small changes here and there had not agreed with him, evidently.
For before the journey, Samwise remembered Frodo's eyes shining with joy, shimmering blue like the rivers of the Shire. But while his friend's eyes were still blue, they were turning into a sort of hollow blue—a haunted blue.