There’s at least some fulfillment to be attained as Gollum meets his purpose, and subsequent demise made a “deserved” product of his own treachery, as Frodo has gotten permission to be allowed past a temporary lapse in his otherwise staunch resilience to being coerced, not just being let to live, but further pass along to the professedly heaven-like Gray Havens, alongside the Elves and other ethereal beings of Middle-Earth. Though in an innate tragedy in itself, like Vassányi’s opinion, there’s an equally thematic deftness through these godlike beings vacating of the world, after their reserved role for so long was one of gentle guidance with the “lesser” species, in preserving the best kind of equilibrium, or at least one keeping the darkness
