In PJ's RotK, there's a line that Frodo writes in the Red Book about Sam's frankly adorable off screen proposal and subsequent wedding to Rosie Cotton. It was the bravest thing he ever did, Elijah Wood's still boyish hand scrawls.
But that's the thing about PJ's vision, even when it deviates so infuriatingly at times—brings Elves to Helm's Deep, erases Dernhelm completely, or turns movie-Legolas into a bitchy, stalking, Edward Cullensque dickwad—it still manages to capture the tiniest of details and root you firmly down in Middle-earth. Because Jackson didn't pen those words, not Fran Walsh, not even Philippa Boyens. That exact phrase was crafted by none other than the Professor himself: "Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did," he wrote of Bilbo Baggins descent alone into Erebor. "The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it."
That's how I feel about proposing to Prerna.
Still, after all this time? You ask.
…Always.
Slaying orcs, facing trolls, looking death square in the eye, it's nothing compared to baring your soul and asking someone to share your life with you.
