EPILOGUE - MANY PARTINGS
After many many weeks abroad, the four Grunts were finally home in the Shire. Through thick and thin, they had persevered, and now went home to the reward of peace and prosperity.
The reminisced on Master Chief's coronation ceremony. Two things had happened there that were absolutely shocking. First, Master Chief had appeared without his armor on. It was the first time his face had been seen by anyone present. The second shocking thing that had happened was that Cortana had come to the ceremony. This would have been expected but for the fact that she was now human.
After the ceremony, an explanation was offered by Cortana to the Fellowship. Apparently she had devised a way to download herself into a blank flash clone. The clone looked like her original hologram because she had been constructed using the DNA of a certain Dr. Halsey. Now that she was in a human form, she would not have to worry about any sort of operational life span. She would now die of natural causes when her time came. She had given up her ability to interface with computers for the Chief.
And so four years passed. Frodo was unable to cope with the emptiness he had felt ever since he had been stabbed by the Nazgul king. All that he could do was leave for Earth. Cortana, because of her newfound love, gave up her place to Frodo.
And so Frodo left the Ring and came to live in the city of Valinor; a city of unequaled beauty and splendor on Earth.