Ben Domenech

And then you read at Armut the actual manuscript and you can see the tear stains on the piece of paper where he wept.

writing those words.

And the idea that pain and delight are connected is so alien to our experience.

We don't want to connect those two.

We don't want to see how those two are flip sides of the same coin, but they're inextricably together.

But to realize that tears can be the very wine of blessedness is a comfort in those times when tears are unavoidable.

That's beautiful.

That really is.

And I appreciate you sharing that.

I mean, that is a really powerful one.

It is a powerful passage.

There's so many of those moments, aren't there?

I mean, Theoden's death is another one, right?

For him, it is the end, and he knows that.

But what he says is beautiful.

So, lots of that.

And, you know, as you were talking, Alan, I was thinking, you know, there is a...

There is a number two that I don't go to often, but there is one that is another similarly inspiring passage, and it's just a very special moment between two of my favorite characters, and that's Eowyn and Faramir.

Of course it is.

And, you know, that's the moment when this is from the chapter, the steward and the king.