In this final episode of looking at The Mariner's Wife, we fully finish Tolkien's tale--but staying true to Tolkien's characters and world.

This month we found out that renowned Tolkien scholars Christian Scull and Wayne Hammond will be publishing a NEW book with NEW content by Tolkien!

Aldarion and Erendis is perhaps Tolkien's most emotionally gut wrenching tale.... and it deserves to be finished!

We don't know exactly how Tolkien intended to finish Aldarion and Erendis--but he gave us some pretty strong clues!

As we close out the prose of this story, the king makes a great sacrifice for the greater good of Nmenor, and the new queen becomes a pitiable creature with no hope for her own future.

Aldarion gets married and is able to stay on land for a few years... up until his daughter turns 4, and then he just leaves AGAIN!

Aldarion and Erendis finally get married! But Aldarion can't seem to make up his mind on who he really is.

These two aren't exactly star-crossed lovers--their complicated and long-gestating relationship runs for decades, and that's just BEFORE they get married.

Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner's Wife is not exactly a happy story, but as you'd expect with anything Tolkien writes, it's full of meaning, beauty, depth and wisdom.

Radagast was completely removed from the film... and Merry and Pippin are common Hobbit thieves!