[Samwise finds Frodo, his master, alive, but very beaten and discouraged.
Frodo, thinking the quest to destroy the ring has failed as the Ring is lost,
and that they can't escape even if they get out of the Orc's tower:
"for evil is everywhere and only elves can escape Middle Earth...
they sail off, off to the lands beyond?..."
--One verse of "The Roads Go Ever, Ever On" is introduced here]
[Frodo finds out that Samwise has found the Ring
and insists on getting the Ring back, but forgets,
when he gets it back, the power that
over takes the bearer of the Ring.
This brings back the theme: The Bearer of the Ring.]
Short Themes
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