Letters to the Ring-Bearer

“My dear Frodo,

I miss you.
I know you will never see this letter. You will never read these words, nor smell my perfume upon these sheets of paper. In fact you will never see me again.
So why am I writing to you? Even I'm not sure why. I think it is the only way for me to survive without you, and not die of grief. To feel like I am communicating with you, even though you are worlds away, is the only comfort I can feel.
I miss you.”

May Gamgee used to only be Frodo Baggins' maid, working for him daily along with her brother Samwise. But during the War of the Ring, Sam went with Frodo all the way into the Cracks of Doom, as we all know, and she followed. And though a strong love grew between her and her master, as they went through many dangers together, she could not follow him over the Sea and to the Undying Lands afar, and had to retreat to Bag End and try to pick up the threads of her old life. But writing letters to her only love, reviving the past, seemed to be her only escape.