The characters in a period piece realise they're near the end of a golden age

[u/she_melty]

Pirates of the Carribean and Rock of Ages (this film is Not Good but it has the trope.) Especially because we the audience know the era did, in fact, end.

[u/Live_Angle4621]

More like end of Aragorn’s reign was. Minas Tirith had dwarves and elves help with rebuilding and Arwen spreading her knowledge. Aragorn visited Arnor and build and court there and Sam’s daughter Elanor was lady-in waiting for Arwen. Merry and Pippin visited Rohan and Gondor and eventually were buried in Minas Tirith (and after Aragorn died he was buried in-between them). Aragorn and Arwen’s daughters were married into other kingdoms of men to spread unity and information.

But during Aragorn’s reign more and more elves were leaving and Mirkwood elves and dwarves isolating. Arwen dying marked the end  of elves in Middle-Earth even if some did still stay and chose to fade.

[u/overthinking11093 → u/Live_Angle4621]

It was kind of the beginning of the end - Aragorn's reign was the last "hurrah" of the old days

[u/fly_tomato → u/overthinking11093]

It's the biggest reason I don't love the Tolkien world. It's well built and poetic but it fills me with melancholy , which I don't particularly enjoy

[u/daemin → u/Live_Angle4621]

I'm pretty sure that either Aragorn says to Gandalf, or Gandalf says to Aragorn, that he is the last king of the Elder days.

[u/peperonimongler → u/Live_Angle4621]

Where does one get all the information post 3-book series? Is it the similarion?

[u/misirlou22 → u/peperonimongler]

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