The End

[rhu]

Hadran alach, Chazarat Ha-Melech, v'hadrach alan We shall return to you, "The Return of the King", and you shall return to us.

Yes, after eight months, we have just arrived at the end of "The Lord of the Rings" as a bedtime serial. It feels like we should make a siyyum, as we do when completing an order of the Talmud.

Comments

[sethg]

Hadran alach, Chazarat Ha-Melech, v'hadrach alan

How do you say that in Elvish?

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

But you've still got all the appendices!

[introverte.livejournal.com]

Oh man. We sang all the songs, stumbled through all the Elvish, mangled all the names... they can read the appendices themselves!

[abbasegal.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't you also be doing a Hadran alach for Sar Ha-Taba'ot?

Note -- Return of the King is usually rendered as "Shivat Ha-Melech", not "Chazarat Ha-Melech." I admit I don't have a good intuition of when to use which verb, and sometimes I see them interchanged, so it is clearly a subtle thing. Perhaps Shivah is more appropriate after a long exile...