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@selah-chelyah says: Okay, so I have never actually read the LOTR, but I have to say thanks for asking anyway… It seems sometimes that the LOTR and Narnia, etc… are held as the great standards with no issues. So… thanks for daring to question them!   Just had to say that!

@sarah-inkdragon says: I honestly like it, because it shows that we shouldn’t be ignorant to the state of the world just because we’re living comfortable lives, and we as Christians shouldn’t ignore evil because it will come back and bite us when we least expect it. That’s my two cents. XD

@seekjustice says:

Hmm, thanks for bringing this up.

Personally, I think it’s realistic,  and I also think that Tolkien was thinking of his own experience as a soldier in WW1 and as a civilian during WW2. For everyone involved, the end of the war (or the Fall of Sauron) was not really the end of the war. They came back to homes that had been destroyed, both physically and emotionally and that’s reflected in the scouring of the Shire.

I also think that Tolkien didn’t mean us to feel worried for Frodo and Co. I think he wanted us to feel dismayed and horrified that the war had destroyed even the Shire. We’ve been expecting the Shire to be safe, as it always has been and I think that the fact that Saruman corrupts it shows its fragility.

So, that’s my scattered, fragmented thoughts